Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb702bd08a8d1d75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:07:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f24619e4c7f18da9ffa7ed2b417da5aa SHA-1: 55d74a0906f1c1ec5ba9455a5c909589b8d18c1d SHA-256: fb702bd08a8d1d75de7308c7b4d9e01ffa943cd0eaeae639f576a9bceb73c790
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure via the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=separation+of+blood+plasma+and+serum+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mydecorandgiftrep.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070476/cdfa360e593c.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/1/0430/3945/7431/files/a_flowering_tree_ak_ramanujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94229011204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0282/9734/files/god_among_us_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3970/9589/files/bhagavad_gita_book_in_bengali_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5627/4339/files/39596878082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0415/8364/files/shadow_demon_pathfinder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8879/8111/files/capture_one_pro_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3701/files/engineering_calculus_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5239/files/31091869149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6488/5397/files/33078361186.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_off000061b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B9 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 5cff404596878c516c2e93a323e4622bf724e88bf567687152c340b947753772
font_01_sfnt_off00007406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7406 10004 bytes
SHA-256: f3f240ce03d3bdecb0b2c19b9fb32f95d458365843815203480125dfce24b131