Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6b8a701207c099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1007fe101512e5e4ec7455c530543433 SHA-1: 01b509146cd3ce8649cae683fb7ef73bdf0f0bbc SHA-256: ad6b8a701207c099924260c57ba7a7caff6d496c2581924267e8835963334d9f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=explorers+of+sky+level+guide'. Another heuristic identified a PDF link farm with 16 external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=explorers+of+sky+level+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.cfapsl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739718/zukokipijasiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blueridgetu.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776763/4507603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exposingtheelca.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/d08531e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1058/7800/files/29529548820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2089/3851/files/53811829570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/rainbow_frog_meme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7518/2496/files/lulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5562/files/makelivefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6778/2821/files/mabakomorogutuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0916/9815/files/zexumekezedukuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0906/3586/files/joniwaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/morunitigikiwijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8384/1190/files/77378151535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/college_physics_volume_2_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2742/9533/files/company_catalogue_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/nejuwavalus.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8E 7004 bytes
SHA-256: b1a40e151c7456c094ce3e41768330fcd4c378e541a0de0217d1637c5fd96e30
font_01_sfnt_off0000876d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x876D 4948 bytes
SHA-256: a578d5471d1250604fab61a8440e39753617137a80c3e30349f1b8ec96969ab8
font_02_sfnt_off00009866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9866 13568 bytes
SHA-256: 88110b24fdd582cf6f470c940bbfe5efffbac3ac6e76be29efc7d4f4b50a5130
font_03_sfnt_off0000c2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3