Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2153968db45c476e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 02:12:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e28e97465c3c6a29cc7d0ace0cdeae1c SHA-1: 20082074cbbedb103e899c6912e530d626cafea5 SHA-256: 2153968db45c476eed1d7b599349db107da6de4e0ce0b1a3cb4d7d7c467bfd01
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, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=devi+bhagavatam+telugu+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.design-strong.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483343/panuzufepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laplayaatthestrand.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682663/fexogobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eatforfeats.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969884/33863ef5b9c41f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5892/9570/files/17307471591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/sewinojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9912/0033/files/kixatiburibimopuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1637/files/talorexalote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/cfop_all_algorithms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1977/1799/files/vofazugupilije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9041/0658/files/bokelupuzonavimedove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3774/4552/files/64004745008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6577/6030/files/10009054624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dedepisolutiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8918/files/vajuwujewugopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3021/files/nuworigavafabukegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3356/files/44892876341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/search_engines_information_retrieval_in_practice_free_download.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B45 5356 bytes
SHA-256: f488459c65c34a8da7f466b1363e602337db1a1a2e896344906f33c10bdccc45
font_01_sfnt_off00005d74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D74 8960 bytes
SHA-256: 9303023db0a6e0120d4f6d9c8e69a733d656c245abe41296de5a070a3509bf9c
font_02_sfnt_off000077c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C0 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 7206ca3e2c5c31d57892e78846d177cca03875e99c063fa5f9e0cb39087a7273
font_03_sfnt_off00009a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A92 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd
font_04_sfnt_off0000afbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFBF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f

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