Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7846e6b0d1b96d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 07:41:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 51126ae16231e153a8570a3eda56eb6f SHA-1: 005868b432e4c31c153cd6c59985954605bb3de5 SHA-256: b7846e6b0d1b96d414d6a76d3b1d5038a0bc0ac6c7a65f8005db9cff46112f79
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=mapleroyals+training+guide+cleric', suggesting an attempt to lead users to malicious content. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other Shopify-hosted PDF links, indicating a link farm strategy. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially harmful websites through a deceptive link-based lure.

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=mapleroyals+training+guide+cleric In PDF document text
    • http://files.martapequeno.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740260/7821e262b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuvuv.donleespizza.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/5643199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weddingproct.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/6882092.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/1/0432/3858/8584/files/8175636507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4583/8248/files/business_letter_format_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/46324180498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0870/4164/files/vce_exam_simulator_2._4._1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0278/1083/files/19203237038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1059/files/fuparaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4276/5976/files/norexejixogenakunimaxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7606/6207/files/wibewewezijutelewokabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/livim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/juzitofefelurovelasefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/vigadinenedasabiboxuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5209/0022/files/mitojutifodebesava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9819/3573/files/jalozojubedanemaka.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_off00004383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4383 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 2923e2065bfff0ee6e36e27174efbf7309b0198f0e94732603cda19537e46c20
font_01_sfnt_off000055c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55C8 9288 bytes
SHA-256: f6149f72314b4a05da6944ac4da7f2f55e35182f1ec1ae567855bc4f4985f9f7