Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac952fcad3593e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 20:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 22b97c140e9c1c3e310340b3947e4d37 SHA-1: a93bb7649ab3a004ad3abf2cf3723590ef99b79f SHA-256: ac952fcad3593e111b3cd1070f8e819475ea23e3606064dc5e96e7ff43c37fb4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=avid+s6l+24c+manual'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to distribute content or traffic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains the same suspicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=avid+s6l+24c+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.cyclenewengland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438418/sotuverulixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixipur.heatherrandall.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681337/2803ebd.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/1/0429/9587/6003/files/vasakavafulafisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1347/8312/files/web_browser_for_android_2._3._3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0703/1966/files/41131908349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6863/files/46226247454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0188/8416/files/88041185518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7146/2814/files/mimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4061/8134/files/boiler_water_testing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8188/4063/files/periodoncia_clinica_carranza_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3782/files/85842386943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8402/1921/files/tajagere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0658/3203/files/duvovuluzopejuwi.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F91 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 2b172a40944da44c06ab7298d6eac53cdcc228c849cf39671f2455073d19f758
font_01_sfnt_off000061ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EF 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 71a7975cb9782dbd6a8e49ff243fd345b7f3648f00612126a90ef3efcd82e730

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