Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d6209fb2524d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-07-27 20:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4fb8d7a2c530304ee43cfe1930bc6b74 SHA-1: e17734bdaf8dea55dd4885db34ff713e7976a783 SHA-256: 32d6209fb2524d37207e500e204948d10b8d9435633faa4ab653b3e72f138b49
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. One of the primary links directs to 'ttraff.ru', a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'snake bite management'. The presence of a link farm further supports the malicious intent of driving traffic to external sites.

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=snake+bite+management+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nicoleshanks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776168/romomukepa-wifixufezodov-laguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nptg.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/ginuwoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.purifoyfloweressences.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681495/potelabopolaxu.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/1/0432/7247/0686/files/nepinemugewetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4721/3464/files/novuvaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5858/files/78516161259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/mivita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1212/0998/files/mosajaguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7218/3703/files/zefezadulevezofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3337/0522/files/desexonalileluzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/49536452742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1270/1854/files/dupetirarajaxegunejikiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9945/4628/files/90232885568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1089/1680/files/relumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3998/0710/files/69340759045.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_off0000856a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x856A 5040 bytes
SHA-256: ff3f2036168990d8b7d8eb335e55c403fa2007f0ea56fbf26975204baf5a1d7e
font_01_sfnt_off00009676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9676 10428 bytes
SHA-256: c2025e6d981da5ae4fc1a364a452a152aa13a36b88436a1b21390ecb1f7e76e4