Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2851b5a5566aa37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a301e705e52235afd4bb9eafc0b922d3 SHA-1: efaa5e27e79c9fe45818de44483f36da1ab055e7 SHA-256: d2851b5a5566aa37c2a364095fe99cf1e3445ef697a315d4431d41bc1a33d3e8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=casio+edifice+558+manual', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to exploit users searching for manuals, redirecting them to malicious infrastructure.

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=casio+edifice+558+manual In PDF document text
    • http://zojejawox.animalcountryparadise.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681361/4505116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zedivabiz.tigertogre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775062/e5412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eatwellhalifax.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775221/c7afdfa84992c20.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/1/0438/3899/6642/files/37517226073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5470/1463/files/interrogative_adjectives_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4199/files/agama_itu_bukan_candu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2314/6906/files/84128816905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4771/2928/files/api_platform_disable_swagger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9820/1502/files/gegebirapoduniwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6957/8147/files/semajudilufupugapukeniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8778/2297/files/auto_click_cookie_clicker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/gta_san_andreas_full_cheat_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5724/9430/files/70071937817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9236/files/51800768627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2178/5498/files/40146158440.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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6265 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 62696117ca609913e09b303dbcbd1f59fbd32e52823ad30d6a0e7ea9cffe2573
font_01_sfnt_off00007459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7459 13476 bytes
SHA-256: 64cb61215e7c2886749b226309ec050722eef08b25f7f13771c20c4e0a10ce72

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