Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 244d922ad84cdb76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 09:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa830245ae1aeec8a117cf7dabce6c55 SHA-1: c18213d739df9414f6ae99ec07ef9d99c3db2a34 SHA-256: 244d922ad84cdb760a02b0da4989261007aa0570a8fb5aaa512cbaa19cb6138a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=arya+samaj+book+pdf+download'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a social engineering attack. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to a malicious site via the ttraff.ru domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=arya+samaj+book+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.andrew-rabb.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/vozisadepejiwep-kisupigire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drycreekgeneralstore1881.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739533/babejezapupov-duzegiretogu-zimopikazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.borderbowls.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814754/dawofukebuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizunadex.neilpresleycox.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738799/musigu-tatemu-rokonu-nufegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobox.wlcbands.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/vuxejuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aryamantavya.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Dyanand-JIn 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/1/0432/8341/5204/files/manual_of_the_church_of_the_nazarene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8866/1919/files/bls_provider_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4162/7029/files/enterobacterias_patogenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9252/4700/files/voveganebafedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2559/4530/files/bisitipiwivewujigebibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/11415483863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7390/4545/files/ridimekulanewunipuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6572/1503/files/14295525850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3435/files/69721311462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dotalufakelani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3668/7008/files/preschool_all_about_me_worksheet.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_off00004e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E02 5648 bytes
SHA-256: b7aabf8165ff62652bcc593d853464d263a108052587df3be30e9c76b6a3d634
font_01_sfnt_off0000613c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613C 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 916475319a0600b9d77abdde52d66dabafcfbed893e3bcf7d312ea66fca5c349