Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0daf2094c6264f50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 06:08:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9bca73d009e394dbed02b29e222b294b SHA-1: dd94dad6cc8a6de746b0ef8540951eb50e8598db SHA-256: 0daf2094c6264f503329c5068150dd3c620cc13102807b4af2a0ccf0c86ce643
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'chrome extensions website' and lists multiple PDF URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's intent is to trick the user into installing something, likely leading to malware or credential theft. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • 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=chrome+extensions++website In PDF document text
    • http://files.outofruins.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384229/9959465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joquinn.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683087/75c25a1350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kellytuckercreates.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/nunolabux_gotevupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.menasgerovei.lt/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874361/498984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9721/1558/files/5519130299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/fadigubejuvuxenuwagukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4647/6708/files/ez_go_txt_service_manual_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6713/6408/files/jebemoroxunelabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8946/0376/files/ximosaxuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0663/1833/files/partituras_para_guitarra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1646/1211/files/kawekezukisari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2980/6759/files/argyll_forest_park.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/11776076414.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_off000070d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70D5 4792 bytes
SHA-256: 595b6a34427537a1838fdd1061c3d2855f9c6be80a31672b73f538522ab21043
font_01_sfnt_off00008109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8109 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 3f54bd6a699f8d55bb327952957f2b1124098a6e18d9560b7361c5bbc4d31422
font_02_sfnt_off0000a453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA453 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378