Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cf08481cd0d91c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aed8e4e79fb1a57dbd1cd853ac3707b8 SHA-1: a558a1a9e1dff0a6aa8fd1312ba477db5cbe8b86 SHA-256: 2cf08481cd0d91c9de84ccb663a8f00887057cfe3637afb3f0048e109a335a6e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on Shopify, designed to appear as legitimate research papers. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely the ultimate destination for the attack. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=regression+analysis+in+data+mining+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.quikartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814475/77db55ef5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nursinghomepj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437750/rupipo_vemudejuxugivoj_nofomabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nddistrictyouth.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438460/af55d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simplicitylavenderfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636843/toseteviwadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fulefevizurosojasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4203/7150/files/gexapunokekokifeparesuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zemeletitofugawekabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69440205977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6074/6648/files/msc_orchestra_deck_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7204/4697/files/cambridge_companion_to_liberation_theology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4162/8072/files/muforamuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5147/3301/files/23333696869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3455/files/gejipifakovudususemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5913/5132/files/87569725695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7265/8335/files/pezatimob.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D3 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 0616ec7d43acbccef7dfb07de6f2d89564484eb3bcfce382741344b7c6db7666
font_01_sfnt_off000083a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A9 10360 bytes
SHA-256: e2dba45c168419bca53bff1857a2c239d45e91c1ecac8fc37a2c803fba64fbd5
font_02_sfnt_off0000a716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA716 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3