Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1f53f8011ce556d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ee34ed1b43334043a6701fe278c0d50 SHA-1: e8875cd3ce2dc9e70e8c90b9111d35e45d80e80e SHA-256: e1f53f8011ce556d68d1a4d355f619e0a9c5dd1cf48f7798140166cb85fce01b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=the+weight+of+glory+cs+lewis+free+pdf, is a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites by leveraging SEO techniques to disguise malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated.

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=the+weight+of+glory+cs+lewis+free+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.buckeyehollowchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070207/wovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vendettamotorsports.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380295/jivipigoluxel_mabegilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellingresearchlab.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740707/d075bf90f6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pewaw.ichdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/lidisenatal-wojepa-rijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleyjana.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969334/7f3cec.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/1/0431/5856/9115/files/59083185835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1734/files/70556653844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0077/2254/files/dizoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9912/0033/files/96298197525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8972/1496/files/dictionary_of_public_administration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7765/4935/files/certificate_of_origin_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5254/7739/files/ramisufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3455/files/juxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5235/8042/files/94799375362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8382/4294/files/71565129977.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_off0000756d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756D 5348 bytes
SHA-256: c49d514f86a00ca0e18840edd7b6b18db153e093349892a0f858bc91fa120943
font_01_sfnt_off000087be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87BE 10208 bytes
SHA-256: aa1527cf49d2c5a3ce96f3c9fd97e7d407e1c7120ae9499c3f794091e1a91af8

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