Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b565edaf96ff9dec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-07-28 09:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d5a728687ba9301def89e7b958ef4fc SHA-1: d9346f9559f0e49bb4298dfc5543adc505804ed3 SHA-256: b565edaf96ff9dece3e90afb6138859ff10c2cbf85ba2dc56514fc8be8b77fc1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a PDF link farm. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=java+version+in+android+studio', is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDFs further supports the link farm characteristic.

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=java+version+in+android+studio In PDF document text
    • http://files.howplannedgivingworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/bokoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.passport2pain.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/vunedanupape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.puntacana-restaurant.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/befoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.2018.taiwanpianofestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969686/rufulenotezegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mushroomsnaturallystl.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814052/virijakose.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/1/0432/9567/0432/files/gisufuposof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3699/7782/files/taneladejudujemuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2168/0283/files/tolelomaladizoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1810/files/jepilesifuwitajifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2288/3735/files/pagumasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9945/4628/files/tezetalujerifewafufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2961/7057/files/fexesozefosopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4830/files/kenepalovomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/xezokitejapogakosiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1033/files/fetowalixofoxibetiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/fojilebepoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6849/files/15916113947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/3524845633.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000927e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x927E 4720 bytes
SHA-256: 30dc7b6dec26b33cf36cc29c02c3c9c6ad0a5f4c2901d3248bbbc069eac7c684
font_01_sfnt_off0000a295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA295 10444 bytes
SHA-256: fb6605ed5792858854d89c018ac0ed08a7c85a83da288333e515bccb9701786d