Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6c42febb523628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 15:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7eac837c968a7c27eb05cc5934fada80 SHA-1: 2a6d10deb451fe143aab7e7ad0c3487a0c13c9f1 SHA-256: ae6c42febb52362837b11c92303fe80166381bbed30fd0f51817eb76db9a0d5b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aviation+english+book+free+download+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites under the guise of providing a free PDF download. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=aviation+english+book+free+download+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thearconline.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380901/33eb553dd2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancingbeartech.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873932/pifodufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.francofestcalgary.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380343/jobotasivexa-sopubizoj-vuniba-xixedakupesuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caseyharvilla.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712214/vevuzupakaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tobypenneyartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856743/kajadajevixasijebaxa.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/1/0431/2861/9168/files/rukigesewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2019/7789/files/70144429015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2710/2887/files/60328984533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/59052314532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6618/6135/files/misobaxilagugixikobusorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5350/4917/files/vufagipajuxasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8606/1463/files/pop_false_ceiling_design_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5362/2182/files/9296110866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1868/1496/files/78636048531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5107/3174/files/85165148789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rakapadanixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7138/files/bapibakorarumuzajununa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7707/5108/files/zufufavusoneligutoxu.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_off00004e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E91 5436 bytes
SHA-256: c92a8ef7a01926978b8a5b5b634022f3b597811084adb65887b2c6e2dec69b45
font_01_sfnt_off00006113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6113 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 5d78ba354529fd68a332526da978abf09e15bead26e5dd13846d7f66a658f29a
font_02_sfnt_off00008312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8312 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e