Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f35d0112efc78102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.5 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b3cec71671c227e6d6eb56b386c5618e SHA-1: 8866863e7cd49ebb4fe1704673b4d5d3699ff2fa SHA-256: f35d0112efc78102a59b49a8b6d956736e431a3583ede57aa20f1160bcc7a7a8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=calf+tear+rehabilitation+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=calf+tear+rehabilitation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sophalawyer.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857060/rulevolipubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluelotushypno.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/vamusen-zuriga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuwig.johnanthonyguitars.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874197/lejoruzubidamonu.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/80278007767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3962/9218/files/19722686778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6850/5766/files/kokogagalutuletufagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7650/1148/files/98097539820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5198/3772/files/17569043098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7048/8730/files/susaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6544/9371/files/43926922542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7587/8564/files/basic_chemistry_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9730/8840/files/53163380188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3880/8991/files/24022371592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9879/1322/files/46266131895.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_off0000a8fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8FD 4996 bytes
SHA-256: da20c5466e627bac0b1fd183256af8963e452457e1d6137c1101171c25e30598
font_01_sfnt_off0000b9e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E7 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 258a92f61a0325a18c4c92b292e9fc9d7ff85eaf5bcd8f22b6b49d874871fdb7