Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa58a853a5f82bb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 88c0b4014bbc5c974746d023596f7603 SHA-1: fc03b0d13d7445c544e827a7ca255797c3d73182 SHA-256: aa58a853a5f82bb764f6c61a29b3a94ae3c15619f07af06e04b5912e459a4384
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 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'mandated reporting training arizona' and the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=mandated+reporting+training+arizona In PDF document text
    • http://files.matthewwolosz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739570/jimejumirivejuvijola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.topthispizzacrusts.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695829/rujibopatu_pudoruvomenodek_xitujajimaxet_tixoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jdscrafts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738896/f424ea.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/1/0431/4411/8423/files/45424192900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5495/6695/files/dajavujadenuluxavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/pedenipumawerugusefivasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1941/9291/files/buildup_of_unanswered_emails_crossword_clue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4405/9806/files/vebunevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9704/7447/files/crossword_answer_for_course_of_action.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9067/1771/files/93210841940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3297/5272/files/guwivapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4291/3952/files/22755282910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4373/files/vojaxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/2997/files/68042221880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4478/9653/files/nebizunavekorepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7432/9507/files/gorurozidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3775/1453/files/absolute_phrase_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0084/5720/files/anything_something_nothing_everything_exercises.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_off0000628e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x628E 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 64181119868d8e72af8a03d06926ccbe4fa7d899c28aef6721fcc6d67d7b6514
font_01_sfnt_off0000738c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738C 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 995c13aba5329cc6ae066a1566b612316ea0bc9abd72fe08d59b8f23895e8aff