Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5981d8c566fc9cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 02:40:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c4092d8e7b528f7bff5283b9f2d92d62 SHA-1: 3be3c914424dc0982316a6dd84fe90d6457fd822 SHA-256: b5981d8c566fc9cc194edb0d287cb07a51157d462742d4e43b934288648b9af1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary one directing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=essential+evidence+based+medicine+pdf`. This URL is part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and lure unsuspecting users. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely used to mask the malicious activity.

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=essential+evidence+based+medicine+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://misapeb.pthscap.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/migidolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wyandotelementarypto.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380625/vawudiwomonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazuzu.wendellresearchgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738714/sokudowum-nirap-gator-getiteritomoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lquertportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814308/zuzibeditaxig.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/1/0440/3098/4357/files/50761965332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/66790968051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6986/9975/files/anaerobic_culture_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4853/files/tovesodafanorixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7825/4753/files/juzubimivowufavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/97069009690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/alexander_graham_bell_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9613/7111/files/52119594178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6058/4870/files/cambridge_pet_speaking_test_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4721/3464/files/fairy_tales_stories_in_tamil_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6436/files/5394287738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/govupegujidazupenagetoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7025/7320/files/guy_s_neurological_disability_scale.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_off00005f35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F35 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 6e31269ba0a5c99ba4d86cd5472450a0539aae5bce8025c158157a9768bb85e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000715d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x715D 10180 bytes
SHA-256: b09305aca0a323937bc972afa7b1beda675b4c7ffefe942ee93a543989c7f604