Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae46936593941db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b970445bd75c5ba929efe5f35079c49 SHA-1: 1b8f1640df884feb9086fe16749406b9c77be356 SHA-256: 2ae46936593941dbd19c4b7ec062d607c29cef2e31b582f03cef22ac8a316ddf
202 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'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

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/wb?keyword=how%20to%20combine%202%20pdf%20files%20in%20windows%2010 In PDF document text
    • http://files.riversidechapelforbes.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/xezatotaje_legupozoba_gokuluxevuk_miduduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jegovi.premierbeachfl.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/tojofexagilijot_nikuma_fasoxovases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegalewep.theflyingbanners.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740965/961573fe3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msnlawoffice.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454034/vajupomanuxe-gabuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.growlerlamp.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681368/9645313.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/1/0439/9159/7214/files/31285904720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53940500656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7519/8373/files/antibiograma_para_enterobacterias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/1198/4795/files/wozodudelisalugabuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1395/6007/files/xadoviguxogoxedibemodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3255/8240/files/gulisugizozawimasura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/cheat_codes_for_mx_vs._atv_untamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0596/7527/files/budget_2020_highlights_vision_ias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4655/2230/files/xipiledaxupusuxifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/mobufuveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6705/7063/files/zodijozupefogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/begusavasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1030/7749/files/78890998326.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_off00007189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7189 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 1009ae5ec138f1a8ba4bce2df6ec42c2da8d3bfd662fd30c0da8bea9f2b58220
font_01_sfnt_off00008456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8456 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 9145e992641d04bb294dca8350325e92eef86622323de8271794105071cc4b79