Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c95e511212ce94e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 13:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 783503fbccf243ae34f413025f256b75 SHA-1: b3c45dd9581676d24d759e5f19ec910243149e1d SHA-256: 2c95e511212ce94ea14c07f425611cebe37957316a2cf4917a0105eb40b90df5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link that masquerades as a download for IELTS listening test materials. This link redirects to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious URL. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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=ielts+listening+sample+test+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.strongerdaybyday.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/tudawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jukumovig.backcountryexplorers.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/nupakukeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smwvumc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/9991759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikabezo.ashleyssweetchips.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/rolumukukowevosute.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/1/0437/2951/8746/files/64246377103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8665/8213/files/bexokijarusedajugamozoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0215/0557/files/jatunoxokufiloxijukupide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5827/8050/files/knee_stretches.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97253363073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7618/2426/files/bsc_1st_year_zoology_syllabus_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7494/5184/files/wofixujepiralirupupilipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0657/4240/files/tabasurukuzoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3197/8403/files/burgreens_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7729/6543/files/30796611073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6334/4294/files/big_ideas_math_algebra_1_california_edition.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_off0000621a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621A 5204 bytes
SHA-256: fbbc4488ef6982f6804b876b182cf7b6083601e665f8930b91f30bf26e67347b
font_01_sfnt_off000073bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BB 10404 bytes
SHA-256: ea69f37b4277a152d7291741663cb808be5c81f9c063baf56bf8e8a2ce2d4aba