Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eeb11f97e134d23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 22:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 41b71e2697488dba355d8cf975f84dfa SHA-1: 6cc8efe94e4554b575e6b5aaeef3a99a3dd3c209 SHA-256: 2eeb11f97e134d234d939fe82f5c008ce00ee2507c2e6f865a36f9b6a6abf8e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=employee+letter+format+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to lure users to a malicious site. The document body also contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network used to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=employee+letter+format+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hounslowpensionersforum.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398504/relixilapuwamutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thetotalplayer.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/4701535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friendchristianassembly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775916/sifurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kumbalekguitars.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606533/jepuzidur-toxuzelozibegiw-vonanesedimetuj.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/1/0440/0332/8150/files/supply_chain_management_sunil_chopra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9535/0684/files/90077029510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/6247188759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/nowitefesowugimadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3000/1302/files/pidososewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tevedizulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6975/1967/files/alyssa_carson_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2739/files/ziratuletizadapiluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2491/6388/files/5226802615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5461/2123/files/64420152513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7077/4693/files/11343622639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34530012154.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000076a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A1 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 3723a7c83eac2dccffbbea12eb82754a3374c3626f32554e6d82a121ea19284e
font_01_sfnt_off000087d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87D3 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 67a9d520908724c9ed6acb5207fb603c039e14f9e894810e9059b07f76ae2c3e

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