Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2058b3e06be60d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:10:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0263468d1ba430bd6c6c770ed2a492c9 SHA-1: 695e2d2379d7aecfe8192ab9aafa99d7d6337ad1 SHA-256: 2a2058b3e06be60dd25f51ee3ccb8d7961d233258e2de379c43ec142f688cfd5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=download+tutorial+excel+2020+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, indicating a large number of external links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/ejercicios_adverbios_de_frecuencia_en_ingles_6o_primaria.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading a tutorial, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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=download+tutorial+excel+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://texajim.hanworth-barn.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776791/3810319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taotantricteachers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/lilizul_xojilaminokowo_fisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xifop.kickapoovolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381464/fawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dalewoodbaptistpdo.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453674/7862620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joanberkey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454255/635339.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/1/0433/8617/5651/files/ejercicios_adverbios_de_frecuencia_en_ingles_6o_primaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9277/files/butufelevedoxajolarikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6657/files/15798583707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1628/0475/files/6251971912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1723/8685/files/6279101639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/71598923360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8395/4328/files/68879641437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3503/2737/files/dosunulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9970/7805/files/definicion_de_malos_habitos_alimentarios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.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
🗂 Part of campaign: dalewoodbaptistpdo.org 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008a53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A53 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 83ef825c5a32ed24359f8c42d5070c5d5d219abd25ad8f260c61ad3558423012
font_01_sfnt_off00009cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CDB 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000a569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA569 14104 bytes
SHA-256: 50eeac2af2aa85840776a24260aaae17e33514a04bd2c1287e2daaedf5ff6064
font_03_sfnt_off0000d1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E6 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939