Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f2e6e8eca1c5643…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 12:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3316ee0fe265c21a4e0e030af865d57d SHA-1: 7304ad64891eab99b2560b96b17c7ade87ece581 SHA-256: 0f2e6e8eca1c564381aa4f6116933c435febd1539d842d95afd038a111651d4d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=vernier+caliper+pdf+sinhala. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the intent is to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The large number of Shopify links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility.

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=vernier+caliper+pdf+sinhala In PDF document text
    • http://files.ellismedlibrary.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739288/lanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chinatownbranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406286/3865872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myhealthplanz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379868/2599184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimitevuw.cfdparamedic.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/504dee8e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.francislewissocialstudies.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710627/721d83ae143281.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/1/0428/5127/0815/files/both_either_neither_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/64822452902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1058/files/31646592151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8693/0329/files/punupofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8316/0983/files/baghban_book_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/14941191655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9403/9975/files/comcast_tv_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2843/8427/files/kubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3683/4981/files/27842564612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/57671111188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35022180152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3342/0195/files/folumerunufexirapaz.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_off00007af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF6 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 5b71b42a647b91f58a4435c8a28c5b5dffa6f636fffe5e95a894afad7322126a
font_01_sfnt_off00008b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B32 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 29c96868c2c7325e22f51509daf4fbf339097c1ba85afc92014adba6d2f4f9c4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE90 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f