Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac093533ef00e94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73976a18468035cd7cd9442945e6f8c4 SHA-1: 3dff6701474e5d580904dfd08c2b72f8a3837c3d SHA-256: eac093533ef00e94b6d3b68ab5cde7a924d4409a34235afb89d441c2ec9bb70e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=exothermic+and+endothermic+reactions+worksheet'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. While some of these Shopify links are confirmed benign, the presence of the malicious redirector is the most significant finding.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=exothermic+and+endothermic+reactions+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.katherinefusco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453267/xalim.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/1/0431/2799/6565/files/sherlock_netflix_parents_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2103/files/33426802214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4890/2560/files/86507567951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/stardew_valley_sound_effects.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9108/0869/files/68864880259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6695/6707/files/tales_of_symphonia_unison_attacks_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1373/files/sudonadowuxemimepumulumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1110/files/the_digestive_system_anatomy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5425/1670/files/joker_meme_template_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6840/files/libro_apologia_de_socrates_de_platon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8011/3562/files/practical_guide_to_extrusion_blow_molding.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000634d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634D 6492 bytes
SHA-256: cf6bcbaf462759e04676f8989e7e87ed4d43c4317550ddbd0c5684ab0bd17b73
font_01_sfnt_off00007381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7381 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 0008f2bcfffb79466eee8f41fb83ee52ac1b7130778b54f2f6059a9f516a4e9b
font_02_sfnt_off000084cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84CD 9860 bytes
SHA-256: f24d5f4f88bdd800f8142cbc02cb89f634d1b7c31c2ee98d19cf760b200a5a18
font_03_sfnt_off0000a66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA66E 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 107dd7461bad0ee7f69ec232d7edbfa51533cbe03462e0930b0bd999c9024e27
font_04_sfnt_off0000bb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB74 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e