Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aade01a57721043b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 22:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 423f73e93165cb282ce521ba0dc06b9e SHA-1: 07d2cd5e2ce402ce810dbdbb2fed8adfb790ade2 SHA-256: aade01a57721043b621869687ebcf5dea9faccb1d291c5f9c0e1cde85797d2a6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits malicious behavior through a high density of embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=speaking+activities+pdf+a1'. Another critical heuristic flagged the document as a PDF link farm, containing 17 external PDF links, predominantly hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs similar to those found in the link farm. The primary attack pattern appears to be the creation of a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content through numerous redirectors.

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=speaking+activities+pdf+a1 In PDF document text
    • http://wibajak.kristenmeeceart.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/4654232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.frabranch159.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682848/bigakezuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.personalizedlearningplaybook.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163914/7321109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarabek.peakperformanceprep.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/70fd92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1009/7313/files/50392265724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3564/8409/files/50131719139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9971/6770/files/zegosepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/xonolofunitaxufanijagukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/4518008427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9197/4549/files/das_kapital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9928/1821/files/quitclaim_deed_illinois.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2316/1768/files/miramojokajumafizagowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2998/5430/files/nelajofafaxowufejobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/74386065286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2598/9785/files/aaa_style_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4658/3976/files/biblia_cristiana_comentada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3867/1010/files/niloledelotodawejubibilal.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000640f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x640F 5476 bytes
SHA-256: dc8e5deaddc47d1c66c6b76576b1c5c5252554daa15b61c848418100c306d44c
font_01_sfnt_off000076db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76DB 9752 bytes
SHA-256: d23a8b527155e4569e8b8c5a033c6e0f6bc95a70e4e71868a6c1096832ba910c
font_02_sfnt_off0000988b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x988B 9040 bytes
SHA-256: 13bfcb68e75d5b8bd976777f18302115d28888e106da5401e7e5ec022d6fe1db