Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3b995a886b4938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7416e4aec9b813b48676bf1756458ef7 SHA-1: 292c59e921d6196804f2e641109619a4dcebcfbd SHA-256: 0b3b995a886b49382066639c444ae84cf2bebbf639c5d15ffda4f8a84ead759b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests a business-email-compromise pattern, where attackers impersonate legitimate entities to trick victims into changing payment details. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=callan+method+stage+9+10+pdf, which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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=callan+method+stage+9+10+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.purrfectpalsadoption.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775380/4258984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mewibax.mylearninginwolfcreek.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/3162081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lamosproductions.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/1a7b7e1baac280e.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/1/0437/7614/7607/files/determinant_of_matrix_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8661/files/lojufijojikupajipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2868/4701/files/sejoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3146/0002/files/pharmacotherapy_casebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0324/7781/files/31980879286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6000/files/16_week_squat_challenge_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/wikusijebevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1864/8732/files/48208147473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1819/6891/files/90923379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9930/files/6th_grade_geometry_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/berger_color_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3964/6108/files/word_remove_all_emojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9224/2588/files/nobomupemojibejurevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1529/files/gatidogerejuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4338/9597/files/xupezukuzomizini.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_off00006411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6411 5612 bytes
SHA-256: a21c7b799c9c6ab39b49ddf08e6f896895e948ceda8469d243a2a7a8bdbb2768
font_01_sfnt_off00007703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7703 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfc5a9b201ae6f57b5806bfcaa397f8017f08cf46344498e54fe55404d6b038