Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a03f97e86f7534…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6afb674913af6712e6d2bef65bb29596 SHA-1: b3c4462ff4e969c8a6f89658f1a39fec61f01c8f SHA-256: d5a03f97e86f7534a3fb7cfe61c75f2b9de71ede2a280446218c51ddaf00b0e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=impossible+quiz+2+answers+26'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on malicious links. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF files, while many are benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=impossible+quiz+2+answers+26 In PDF document text
    • http://files.kaufmanautogroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775639/foxakipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carriedolan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/9017134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dovesembrace.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740463/226b2fe89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bandofgypsiesranch.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303170/8787153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losaxuga.salsaon2school.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738721/wimapetutedijaxixaj.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/1/0432/9940/5979/files/24915576453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4353/6552/files/golipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7817/3343/files/tinogofudokemawikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8368/5270/files/20156692245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2462/1473/files/wimekatowibazodenavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8186/7176/files/rikivejezibizuladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6570/4602/files/latupupadovorifazunuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/3367783399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6341/0845/files/online_flashcard_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/11144572984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8700/2790/files/49977565847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4066/7810/files/11064860071.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_off00006a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A5A 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 8864ad12d5c947fe4d305cb914c4568db9e5c8fd4f267057275e0fc14adce44f
font_01_sfnt_off00007d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D5C 10864 bytes
SHA-256: e3f0f622e3ff9002e0855589a7ae773cb92779678394d8f7ba66a9b67728131e