Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d745d2637c0fb542…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ec15d2429fb310d5f3a3807f196f9fc SHA-1: 56ec44211cb68d472449a19bd1c82241352634b1 SHA-256: d745d2637c0fb542a65fe703dfe8981915865e8dbe7e69ad9d1b13bc85ae6bfe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Maths paper 1 foundation 2019 answers' and a URL that appears to be a lure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used in conjunction with a keyword search to disguise the malicious intent. The file also contains a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning.

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=maths+paper+1+foundation+2019+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.gobe-everyday.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695596/cd88879e8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maximilianlaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874361/jikawulijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.franceswatkinsartist.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681150/61021a9326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bifopisaf.jeanisaacson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/sodelupojekanakavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jacobjosephpiano.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379174/4874819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9811/2167/files/gulapifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9700/2918/files/html5_boilerplate_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1501/2511/files/viral_pathogenicity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3546/7682/files/netomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/my_hero_acoustic_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9432/files/napasexafuxevozijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1315/2673/files/76783215427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0683/5358/files/blessed_assurance_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7427/2924/files/saudi_anti_bribery_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8140/9436/files/24748803182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1614/2497/files/23003956750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4665/8463/files/vunilojugaxopikusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/33472632422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8146/6005/files/36485260426.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_off000062fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FB 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 759f8fb4d3a4b79c95a1afd66fab94df2841b3aa87fa90e108aad61b887651ea
font_01_sfnt_off000075ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EF 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 10e878fa8c9a56483e4f546c9a92c5f93888ec22b2a8af95112b923d3ed3c003
font_02_sfnt_off000098ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98AE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34