Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 216dcc12b3db23b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6cda6dd714a7635865ba1fcc5c361308 SHA-1: 4d333ba6efb3a7bdf7a7bc7463c0966f8fb0fc5d SHA-256: 216dcc12b3db23b58facaec2a1d00ae0a2f1e8070699f6a9a4627003d5e83a18
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=blackweb+headphones+review', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes this URL and appears to be a lure for a product review, suggesting a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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/wix?keyword=blackweb+headphones+review In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dda84f96314644a59f6707ce6feb0fd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0725ec1cacfc4d5fa647dcaf7a2bfee7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fdfa90182a5d4bc28e25f13ed5d7ec77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_4165cf3d3f134b91903b3038fe72e681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/melody_of_the_night_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5399/6442/files/wunegotivegoxitefojuxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8126/0440/files/bigunoburufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4642/1158/files/bloatware_android_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3673/7699/files/factorio_uranium_processing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2825/8726/files/customer_service_training_schedule_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0396/9689/files/38884848647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0138/6920/files/11175565534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9963/4326/files/tonisisigesufatudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8388/8808/files/dilapovakarututatape.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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000752b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x752B 2952 bytes
SHA-256: e211f2d6e0d1bf1fd17bd5150bc2724fb7c0f1d37b1c69b855d9dcad8de34ab0
font_01_sfnt_off00007fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FB9 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 958dd31fb73ce986abf7aaf0534326ff2f3138bff81c16bac507fb7cf71a749d
font_02_sfnt_off0000929e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x929E 13316 bytes
SHA-256: cee7a66a14b137ad762071459aeec0d7c5402609ebbe3587eb0f49e63d828b32
font_03_sfnt_off0000bd32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD32 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 051837a0337477dfbb6902371460c1670985facfce249cf256f6d038aeae7303