Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae0457c1318e7b33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e5314f318b986dc21c6684c7de11c3b4 SHA-1: ca1a094d07d8f24e006f53ea66791c121d41d397 SHA-256: ae0457c1318e7b333473a87e79a42c374b28543bbd6488a302ba799d109ceb1e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=string+format+javascript+npm'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains the redirector URL and mentions 'string format javascript npm', suggesting a potential lure related to programming or development.

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=string+format+javascript+npm In PDF document text
    • http://files.anmhomedecorandmore.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814906/geralawevixopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wokod.perchancetheatre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/vurisesijiwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.becomingsarh.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739567/3400932.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/1/0431/0473/1300/files/infinite_stratos_english_dubbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8759/3632/files/tozazavezemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/rilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1146/files/clasificacion_de_los_seres_vivos_biologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/20359842474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4094/8892/files/categorical_data_analysis_using_the_sas_system_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6771/files/75632481279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9612/8153/files/fikefevinokijofowudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/lebexuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7634/4225/files/27815726962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/fovobazotejomoguwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7620/6238/files/12021991193.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_off00008396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8396 5544 bytes
SHA-256: e33200536ceb438443c347c62f658f4e05ce904809a8ef663e110cbf6dd0d895
font_01_sfnt_off00009663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9663 14032 bytes
SHA-256: a5fd1f2aac1bc1ce9a02f03f83dbc7953d4843d9a3e740025a1febc545d2c446

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