Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c541f74376a2071d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 08:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ecfff0fd430c2f51adccdfe8c7c77d4 SHA-1: 9d7ed2869aa628a13565e16dba1c88a86d4b5ab9 SHA-256: c541f74376a2071d82e14b97341326533a3681a62fcf23ae84ee42fa1b276ca4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains but are likely part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings for malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=antibiotics+guidelines+pdf', indicating an attempt to direct users to harmful sites. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links.

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=antibiotics+guidelines+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stnicholasbuccleuch.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813132/1760428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.appalachianaxeworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871852/damaluvudolanulatape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gratefuldavecharters.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775135/9791504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevazik.natjonesartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857419/bilemarozazogu.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/1/0431/9870/9918/files/kinokotorepeziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/58385894794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2573/3531/files/review_handbook_in_diagnostic_bacteriology_rodriguez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8859/3567/files/wukadalovitufuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9329/8071/files/75977939548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5678/files/33299258444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8942/0695/files/auditoria_de_gestion_concepto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/47756553728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7581/9927/files/atlas_item_ids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/nevegakesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5045/1623/files/58685095130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1505/7056/files/breves_de_comptoir_gratuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/64423145568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0767/9397/files/26587806436.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_off00008047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8047 5148 bytes
SHA-256: a4ccfaba6f31e5907494b76df7a51ec77ada044aac7515357eafd9ed5cf471fe
font_01_sfnt_off000091de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91DE 10208 bytes
SHA-256: e3415c51484b9f315085aefafab9ad6d06e6f4bc97d6054c4517f70179e10ff8