Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd251e6e65b4edef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4405a55c5282dd0685045aeb33a268eb SHA-1: 97f89222357dc5ce53a178a144f9d94c436aa02f SHA-256: bd251e6e65b4edef390e6c98e9410881988a5ae07fa8b528241388e43f77f952
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=complete+ukulele+chords+chart+pdf'. While the document body mentions 'Complete ukulele chords chart pdf', the primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of many links, including to Shopify, suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

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=complete+ukulele+chords+chart+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thatvintagesite.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303406/gisipomunupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stmatthewsjamestown.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482991/458597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schlichamericanlitghs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776205/nozubu.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/1/0429/9273/0275/files/39681901790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4103/0293/files/kideran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/masijajewipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/discussion_method_of_teaching_mathematics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1664/0923/files/garevifupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/465725555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/92215998650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7990/files/80638471916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2854/5693/files/advanced_mathematical_concepts_precalculus_with_applications_student_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8174/1976/files/quicksort_median_of_three_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/50541107788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2953/6676/files/rikejilojopof.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE2 5364 bytes
SHA-256: b987e4ccd4d9f99bc5ceb8aab4851a9eb8e270b6b07f3408c3c6b77a083987ff
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF5 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0d3e820735e528102e8546028c0fbf569347c719c8b15ea320419b04852572
font_02_sfnt_off00008f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F9C 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 184efd0e138a9418359f6897f9ac56b5cd93cafbd57abf30711ac2aee7e18832