Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e45acfbafddc59f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:27:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bc61ffa7b214f84f0af6db3327c6b775 SHA-1: 32f7bb82df09f746344e2e385982aacbcaaca3cf SHA-256: 1e45acfbafddc59fcb1563a507838a87e47d2f444634c8179a33b0e17790ee02
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a definition for 'rigidez articular definicion pdf'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to a malicious site via the embedded link.

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=rigidez+articular+definicion+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wilsonandweir.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/kofonova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.planetearthexperience.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739504/2806e4f332d51c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moorheadpageants.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164067/refafeso-vugetanijedav-murebibiseve-ravuxigu.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/1/0433/0933/4696/files/fosuwowadasebedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5469/files/twenty_problem_solving_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9090/1144/files/antenna_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8981/1861/files/nowilupotefuzigerepibipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/acrobat_printer_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0195/3952/files/ielts_writing_task_1_general_samples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49181926903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0607/3759/files/82995374145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4758/1856/files/5902003461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2450/6266/files/71805850118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8348/9687/files/water_sensitive_urban_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3744/7576/files/how_to_cook_crack_cocaine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/kapopuzodadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3110/9538/files/kavoxinagegil.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_off0000814e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x814E 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 251ab15959232dde4e32fdb8009af9f0583dec1340a6c85deb61004850bdaed2
font_01_sfnt_off00009325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9325 10132 bytes
SHA-256: fb8098efac38dcb8dd01367da81e51ab9a5e239ad2169d2b139d89d0f2e6e7f1