Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3084c205bc1515bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 12:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4f6cc2607edef6f8de285ef1a3a56202 SHA-1: 5d4fc8ed391e30bebb8b6958a8c744c578ef5b27 SHA-256: 3084c205bc1515bd35ad9df8333f24b919f1b7b9bf19479954950dfbf9fa4eb3
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=articles+explanation+and+exercises+pdf, which is likely used to direct users to a phishing or malware-hosting site. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and numerous other links suggests a link-farming or redirection 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=articles+explanation+and+exercises+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.4sapservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/229853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ciescreations.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/webaxobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopav.vector-business.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776885/af076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zewulelad.spiritualistsocietyofbarriessb.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/nigemifobu.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/1/0432/2859/4336/files/gipanafojawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4396/0485/files/73073162089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6277/1366/files/loi_binomiale_ngative.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2515/3698/files/bounce_off_game_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/nemezixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/98170676530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/free_download_to_excel_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7808/9878/files/insuficiencia_cardiaca_aguda_y_cronica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2679/1072/files/opel_astra_1998_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67295211500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6871/8242/files/energia_biomassa_como_funciona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2973/3282/files/89878522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0507/4838/files/23377835038.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_off0000644c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644C 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 2967ed981c6e29644e87bcc5cd5e770647cd38d18a7d182df78edb070cf2f1b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000760f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x760F 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 793d2b0c0d5f00e4c1087c8bedcefa329e1a52af5295cfa8758ae25632167e82