Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5a4eddf2e324a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe1429c3aa11ee18ecc06e02f0b4e4a4 SHA-1: 4ffd32e44fce4d987676fdff51fd93f8a80e236f SHA-256: e5a4eddf2e324a7ab5dad7b0b0039db1c60a848055d5bab2abc503b91b48ab30
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=somatic+embryogenesis+pdf+2020', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further malicious behavior.

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=somatic+embryogenesis+pdf+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://files.kofc206.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406391/6156525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelightingsummit.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/56f2241d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semidef.yourmoneytravel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874064/fovem_darejawozu_tefelikafimol_vokelobizisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greatlakesantiquesandartisans.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969499/raradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationincorporated.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482884/6275895.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13164506765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/capitalism_and_freedom_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9036/5864/files/spider_man_comic_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9103/3250/files/thermal_physics_schroeder_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7967/0689/files/88261449875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1455/3763/files/altivar_312_solar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0004/4440/files/calikusu_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7027/3174/files/12313728356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4543/7083/files/87762689063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7050/2550/files/fipavitirudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3918/6344/files/amazing_grace_notes_for_piano.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_off0000b8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8C2 5848 bytes
SHA-256: dcd8747d36185a5364f98847c97bbbfcc8e04a29acc9d3a62897d21747fd0b41
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC80 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 270f19559674d6043a973d2e48e08fb993180d6d8a55e87c43b7240325e30a77
font_02_sfnt_off0000f33d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378