Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee38349a2b07a06d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 03:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b52922f1a27ddc972abcaab99b99910d SHA-1: 0045e154f0ca264d942ab0c69b928293103c0b8d SHA-256: ee38349a2b07a06d2048cdf66767f83352b54c1f4f2eb1ee1f49a49660d6f63b
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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=demonstrative+pronoun+worksheets+for+grade+1+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify URLs, indicating a lure to potentially malicious content disguised as educational worksheets. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=demonstrative+pronoun+worksheets+for+grade+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guvefap.ndsportschannel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379478/wusogepesifefe-timevijatefa-tilijipozoki-xiwawaxariduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amandasmusiclessons.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607600/zidibajawogewu-gatekinapefor-nidoweg-zuwirimamudakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yourwshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/puzukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borumap.viana-motion.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683138/livupurikub.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/1/0437/6159/8616/files/adobe_editor_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8793/7179/files/rapapafejade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0166/5960/files/pdf_split_and_merge_mac_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7745/9365/files/wuxopako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0001/3479/files/zezitavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6975/files/android_headphone_amp_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6497/5765/files/kafanele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2568/files/dependency_theory_andre_gunder_frank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3625/2072/files/lord_of_the_flies_symbolism_essay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5478/2869/files/24767190736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2019/7789/files/thyroidectomy_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2637/5071/files/37790864166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5207/1074/files/repemufof.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_off00006145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6145 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 386c9c582ce4079d2d1aedb75bea46d4640b8cab8b9512e146d4f771cf882689
font_01_sfnt_off00007495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7495 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad1ec704d6827917290770002cf4fc9ea73e052452ad2dd94f8279066254e79