Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a526b9563befa5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61b5bb7fc57ea72e9d74834da7341b2a SHA-1: e8c55939d880a530dd7ddc0fc540975e5292b5eb SHA-256: a526b9563befa5ce205fef04b704ffae4f12a611fd7ca5e5617d28ddf361ac22
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=atoms+and+molecules+class+9+worksheet+pdf'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links within a seemingly educational context. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link embedded within the PDF.

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=atoms+and+molecules+class+9+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stgilesconsort.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/najujofajewoxetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotel.kellykatherinephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/didubulimetuvikodide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thunderbearwoodsmiths.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453512/lilepuxop-liwezisat.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/1/0432/6470/4662/files/38_36_30_28_22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2068/files/physical_science_grade_12_quanta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/download_hosts_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/39806276645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3748/2405/files/fogamosunaxakakawipigoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7070/9150/files/satakuzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6437/8022/files/msi_afterburner_remote_server.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0422/files/possessive_nouns_exercise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0686/8126/files/test_of_reasoning_and_mental_ability.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0118/2370/files/21537065814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0211/6772/files/7220629352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5678/3772/files/43558875592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4031/6311/files/parotimidivalutuvige.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE9 5696 bytes
SHA-256: f73fc32a858b6690c32720266bd99536b893ffab03377706243f71656a3d5175
font_01_sfnt_off0000722d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x722D 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 8065182e872d5ce04c0f083ea0df553ef56d281cbf70bdbf7840a0d3f1d36d63
font_02_sfnt_off000095be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95BE 16088 bytes
SHA-256: ccf42771811f3bfcfc4881e0ea26c61020463520b77f542a172ed5d532e4d210