Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 092ba3b8d25b6c9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:43:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96c2f4092bc5cf9c75513c0fc44b8823 SHA-1: 72ff6102b1bd735492658a7f6672f378656f9f70 SHA-256: 092ba3b8d25b6c9cf3bc477754fdd3f4ab629c72f790e41cc2c9b9eec7ea9715
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link redirects to 'ttraff.ru', identified as malicious redirector infrastructure. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims with seemingly legitimate content, ultimately directing them to malicious sites. The ML classifier also 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/wix?keyword=biblia+de+jerusalen+nuevo+testamento+pdf In 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/1/0429/7264/3491/files/17673888067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3064/1826/files/vovamowurujigesalajobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4131/6264/files/17301596198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/7288/1575/files/accedere_a_gmail_da_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51994241049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_9c17b0803e8f4a91868012030bba3aef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/types_of_jedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6949/files/gaketujegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1606/0061/files/89721088403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0367/4785/files/80269125432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7682/0890/files/wuxuboxufubevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5727/5299/files/49449210111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/minepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2534/0328/files/borderlands_3_cutscene_skip.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB7 5512 bytes
SHA-256: a4759a716b081771fd9b21319ab96c0a10c79511ffea07172a7d47671ff8b589
font_01_sfnt_off00006e52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E52 4380 bytes
SHA-256: 17f9a2a1e1d19a7f82f2be5d890002f76a1992ef943615531b54ed789a5f0f1d
font_02_sfnt_off00007a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A64 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 1c87f75f6bddd557e28c615dea81f7073bca396a36565f0f92285f9977204b30