Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea1007e19746f332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 21:26:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5167ddc4e2749b85a73e093f930fb742 SHA-1: 46a166ea723f62789b6cc5f1e56508407d308d68 SHA-256: ea1007e19746f3329d86cd27207166427c2fa85b29448131891cd6208a1823bf
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, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bacteriophage+therapy+pdf', indicating an attempt to direct users to harmful content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact lure.

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=bacteriophage+therapy+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wapentakeleeds.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071145/812a40d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bhspantherband.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606727/tebesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jolenesphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775342/5436687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrbalwayscare.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/8167746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spitfirecloggers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/583196.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/1/0435/6577/7059/files/ruvufuwupozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/41531406471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8730/files/sumokeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8571/6886/files/satasolewoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3295/2477/files/lidogizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tulajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7685/9557/files/57290280041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1165/4307/files/44478364461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3248/5793/files/lawubokorakubunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0427/8422/files/32443545929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3097/7431/files/sojaperodetixul.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_off0000bb4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB4A 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1089c72cbd15b67c5ad2b8ae15f9b19d308ead09d0ab3e93c6c76225d879a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD8A 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 06576f860b5f347bb858888b2e3bf7a2fc8e2ec8e7cde80a9d779a9b1d17c949