Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0d454f1d4f4552…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:38:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 09cb783bdd5f8f8ebdd8a6b228d77f34 SHA-1: 93037cfa1f9efe38e39b89ededecf33ec822c4f1 SHA-256: af0d454f1d4f45525f7381a4199e5f7460f8918b7fd5f71bdcef256955792ed6
202 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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aspen+nutrition+guidelines+2020+pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many external links, suggesting SEO manipulation for traffic redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The SE_URGENCY_LURE heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=aspen+nutrition+guidelines+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.csubaha.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738903/5648202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotejozaj.reedinstructionaldesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/ce019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spaceclubgolf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382032/bifefobofojovul.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/1/0430/3906/4225/files/curso_de_ingls_avanzado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9364/6753/files/javalenonutuxunabukaleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/waloxotazebujofamobimebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2906/1014/files/34672301811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/lactic_acid_bacteria_classification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/free_western_movies_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9433/4870/files/4230099758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4287/3249/files/penofujosukadotazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6558/files/lexelidunakotujoxelamano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5094/files/sakonogutegigomomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7745/9363/files/97914138073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1735/files/cateterismo_vesical_procedimiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9963/4326/files/82972598455.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a09b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A09B 5144 bytes
SHA-256: f0b455c392510131015ff0db2ca2fc29a3c491e7586b9b2670341426915d4fcf
font_01_sfnt_off0001b22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B22D 15388 bytes
SHA-256: 4b17db383715ab7790fcee1125a5c769ce73a8b76004c5b284a32875714b4e92
font_02_sfnt_off0001e29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E29B 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330
font_03_sfnt_off0001f733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F733 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378