Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4c7e5ac39180135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:39:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c5ea09201030f2e9352e1d91fe46919 SHA-1: cd5142fa43373ea62ae215ca36ab4deb030bd8d2 SHA-256: a4c7e5ac3918013509751f21c0f378c3f79979a150b98b094b85b4540433b686
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=abrsm+piano+grade+1+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to an 'Abrsm piano grade 1 pdf'. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious content. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=abrsm+piano+grade+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alignwellnessatl.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/gexitolirojijefodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.warriors4god.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409574/3091075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fabulousfacecreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856065/3c286952c5ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fcccamp.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/694c181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bapumonotirugapagemuzigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7826/3718/files/4780489263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0844/8919/files/regizidizijedasizupinafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0559/files/napagevedekobepowawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9843/7787/files/nada_boat_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9804/4568/files/gasigedokejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2240/1185/files/jabawasixodemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3902/files/kiss_me_quick_nathan_sykes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2232/5672/files/fundamentals_of_computer_graphics_4th_edition_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7902/5318/files/sebojekojowagikolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2642/2687/files/85929210216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4854/8005/files/lateral_thinking_puzzlers_paul_sloane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3305/1814/files/96570103731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7076/6750/files/fesezixojifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A6E 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 735498c8252b8092070203f3d1248390ff600206c1b9eaf89d76df879d11eec1
font_01_sfnt_off00007d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D0A 11112 bytes
SHA-256: f4f9c918d1645135508282f331bafe39006224f138dddec848dddbf591013949