Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f444bda4016a8b4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 579826b89a2404b5980cfe7720218e3e SHA-1: 075969b4604ac77455509f5d6b25015910354be2 SHA-256: f444bda4016a8b4cd18275c8a52955f265dd42b0a86413f986cbd10c173b094c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to `cdn.shopify.com` and other domains, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=play+store+not+installing+apps++pending`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Play store not installing apps pending', suggesting a lure for users experiencing technical difficulties. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=play+store+not+installing+apps++pending In PDF document text
    • http://files.paperppr.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969175/tanowidulunowapomuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buwufexov.dbdfilmservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/190bbaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goluso.conference2classroom.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775735/mugef_latodiz_gatudawowaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vrarqueen.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712209/jujepezojobanere.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/1/0437/3577/7445/files/cetoprofeno_gel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2760/3354/files/burda_shareef_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3246/8904/files/zewavujolada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8039/9513/files/vokokakufekila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/54313135065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3645/8654/files/dopigivunokowewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/fujetugajudasebojilalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3860/1379/files/airbrushing_and_weathering_techniques_by_rob_ferreira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5699/6247/files/zoxanikabami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4977/0395/files/10000_chinese_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7298/8071/files/kelavipederozogegesozaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/47691347999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5885/files/18669285064.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_off00006b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B6E 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 50120e6af387a99037985cc4cc5aa4aa501b7e1c39e46957c1688a0f68c05d1a
font_01_sfnt_off00007d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D49 10052 bytes
SHA-256: dadb150f43881879ebc07ec7e9156785069948d5b004b895d8d3569327b52297