Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d13a4860c4f55ac3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4f8ee04985f7e3f75aa23f3f08463c3d SHA-1: 5da169da6599b7cadd467c50947ab37f4900c92b SHA-256: d13a4860c4f55ac3e84079ea9233facea8a232591bd91250fb5185220df78125
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific redirector URL, indicating a malicious intent to direct users to external content. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dmv+ny+forms', suggests a lure related to DMV forms, likely for phishing or scam purposes. The presence of numerous links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains points to a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

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=dmv+ny+forms In PDF document text
    • http://files.gaiteway.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407796/duvofo_bufojabi_mawoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kanelaandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406473/3117593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozomupo.danyellscakes.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856161/fc0ea0e75f.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/1/0432/5317/0334/files/notefasaxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0898/1153/files/xikezuxamilugenureso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejupabofutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8140/9436/files/ridagazilagaduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6657/files/26420510035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0712/3357/files/89714485266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8131/0101/files/17423821706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7407/files/31422997216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5423/4785/files/77413300693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5568/files/pixibisudawobigafajavaxot.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_off000057a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57A7 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 5c61a1d69a090afb229d3073fb113688354b5f5a7561c7dd683eef227fcc06a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000681b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 91175c7f937ee389f464494d465d3d7f107063a47d9e0912d4a29c75997f4a1a