Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e745b954f63b5784…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 09:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67b4bc291f1edcd685a5b43bb46736f3 SHA-1: bb88e760549aae9d06edd060aca41e48f5426cdb SHA-256: e745b954f63b5784149e095147372bf3ac6c06a822ae3a7344defb1e5fe24153
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=youtube+topic+music', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to YouTube and music, suggesting a potential lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links indicates a coordinated effort to distribute content, likely for SEO poisoning or traffic manipulation.

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=youtube+topic+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.rmscocanada.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739704/luposu-dadomopi-gurejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lenamadison.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739239/bobixelikej_jefaxofeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hillcountrynatural.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776386/b8efd48312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mgarrigan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/e96e7dc6262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wecanwrite.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775223/rumuja_zudatomifa.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/1/0431/6499/1637/files/78662523379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9515/4070/files/zesejoxovetuzomeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2401/5783/files/nalavakuxuturireki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/xogubapolufejununaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0147/9321/files/12651199305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/jewurojezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/45689239598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5149/1236/files/86061497910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5555796470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6230/5702/files/xoxalapatovaturufavufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/kavokapozetibizufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1829/5195/files/73580389780.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D3 4528 bytes
SHA-256: 870bcfd83c17aea5f77029047e63191939d072206ec5b6ecc274c759581d4939
font_01_sfnt_off000078c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C0 4616 bytes
SHA-256: 57cf76ab1bbbd833486f253c954c7c9c5c00a64e42fb72b618e25e64ef4d55aa
font_02_sfnt_off00008881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8881 15236 bytes
SHA-256: 4da100047e33d206570539512ce868402b21c94eb973583d44eabe345ddb9a1c
font_03_sfnt_off0000b84f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB84F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3