Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e623dd6b900163…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f98603f74852581d3b11692fc89f8b04 SHA-1: da0be62b3d836e16a3cce01d1a34c996c43be3d6 SHA-256: a5e623dd6b900163aee58390a70dcb453870b381c36afba4936f9df796f4b8da
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'inclined plane worksheet grade 2' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or scam pretext. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wb?keyword=inclined%20plane%20worksheet%20grade%202 In PDF document text
    • http://files.mrpielak.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453252/laposotegawujasiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.durbanafrica.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/wowemupezowolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canberrabirthservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813841/0917fed35c1bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bepujefi.hand-e.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814058/a2c1a1a0b8859.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/1/0440/4445/2005/files/calculus_varberg_9th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/26156076146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8660/0609/files/sorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nimapudusakodinufuzexive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/about_myself_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/tamesemekalekefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4847/6570/files/aviation_and_airport_security_kathleen_sweet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4555/2290/files/gakegapavudigadumobukirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1464/files/14397095653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7936/6811/files/radakapajoziwebubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7600/1704/files/arang_tempurung_kelapa.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_off000071c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C7 5560 bytes
SHA-256: c48dd50650eb963dd8f21db81ecdc3bc46c9679f46f63a6c089854fab81eed72
font_01_sfnt_off000084b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B5 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce65c7c932dddd1415e2533d03b15a0476892320696049c163906a45dc1e35c