Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c31025ed489b854a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 09:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e872a5b397d0f5a44447a58734dce8e1 SHA-1: 0477b563738f7aa60564ba9ce020275587e77fdc SHA-256: c31025ed489b854ac6f7a7d27cd4474050af4c43cc133dc1cfeda3a59f68d7b4
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure suggesting it is an 'Rscit application form' and prompts the user to install a browser extension or update. It embeds numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=rscit+application+form+pdf'. Another heuristic indicates a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or distribution. The primary intent appears to be social engineering users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further malware downloads or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=rscit+application+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jatowi.malliefe2o3.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437615/8725480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lauradubin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453302/6261087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.campbornthisway.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775724/laligoz-tukifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brigalowlimousins.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070165/2660577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8517/5713/files/62254207421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2929/1427/files/apostrophe_of_possession_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1948/files/a_very_short_introduction_to_analytic_philosophy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8183/2350/files/revud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/84623274043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4405/9806/files/96914857723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2973/2248/files/73488765371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8595/3192/files/vizawofeduribikuwiwevosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27247465441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/aditya_hrudayam_stotram_lyrics_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0107/7142/files/volepazaxofole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1016/2837/files/dokawe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64E6 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 0c741cdb7a70b65d305e9f53d3262543cb5a3b8f5bdee07546f51c29c3d1fbe2
font_01_sfnt_off000076e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E4 15872 bytes
SHA-256: a51ea25734d747fa9f53fccf6d6610ff55be19cc83a749ee751231669824fc07
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8A4 9640 bytes
SHA-256: 2d5f6121a46312461c94a6e6e33d8fda2a1255f7827301cc11fa36bdd8f331f8