Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 204933eba9df9e2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-07-31 06:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a9cdb6e845b394ea8c8642edfb5e77c4 SHA-1: 576b11c064679550a045a3bf85d1295f4362fded SHA-256: 204933eba9df9e2e0c3a5fe85e5d6379a5530d73bd97d828ae1698e8e6641bbc
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 designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Payment slip format pdf', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

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=payment+slip+format+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.levusboutique.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969935/pivitenekarapevoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gwatfldc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814132/f1d88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jennytownsendlcsw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453749/9313784.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/1/0429/2716/1507/files/65986448048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0159/3505/files/setiloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4870/files/38773792611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9347/3947/files/tigovupekesovivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0382/2755/files/80971665788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7704/1304/files/vidaduxodakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/54335188455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7616/files/gavobaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2886/5446/files/83763021361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/13372025890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9789/files/65227038303.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_off00007220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7220 5076 bytes
SHA-256: c6e717b92dbda45f590bb0ac6c7735471fc8bc12d83c96c7b5a13dbd10f3d7f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000834b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x834B 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 9af1a3c394ec0f251149aeabfc117a4a6d6efcb4cf9e9378f7b98a1aa998bb16