Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b8106011623652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 070d390381667af090eaa986a59e9d06 SHA-1: 057d5b1f9db9f21c0098497ca804c77b7c1ed16a SHA-256: 30b81060116236521f5d049cb36ef4881598971704b1dbe180f95b49416a8f21
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kakaotalk+apk+free++latest+version'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references 'Kakaotalk apk free latest version', suggesting a lure for users to download potentially malicious software. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for the malicious lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=kakaotalk+apk+free++latest+version In PDF document text
    • http://files.bsmcmilehighchapter5280.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/7464994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pickempowerment.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/93d72ad1dd4d2b7.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/1/0428/9282/0643/files/ets_gre_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89186344985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6150/2374/files/xenoreguluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3039/6574/files/xosodisuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.szhao.people.ua.edu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407110/4239419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0609/9605/files/93395794578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/xonilosofoxamekubolalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/10473407175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8665/8213/files/16956132743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4758/1856/files/abrao_de_pai_joo_pdf_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/ganapati_atharvashirsha_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/terok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4053/7750/files/airspeed_velocity_of_an_unladen_swallow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lamafavikunidamekisuf.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_off0000616a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x616A 4988 bytes
SHA-256: 52235894f817176dbd23463e297fd0f682dafb24b1b5a4e093c613450e41ed04
font_01_sfnt_off00007279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7279 12300 bytes
SHA-256: 2864a00934c0c99333a268693ad86dec498e4ec4b187d3d98ce9bab47ed639be