Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36f765a3c1e66394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8a3548326225658d7c72db310b9c0082 SHA-1: 45cd6cfa04c83184fbd08b5d69bf19fa8eb81cb9 SHA-256: 36f765a3c1e66394f8da2ec9e7855a51b2c6041408f520d6356dedbb1b5b3f6b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=add+transparent+png+to+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, one of which is 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5813/files/80471981395.pdf'. The presence of a 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic suggests a lure to trick the user into clicking these links. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to adding transparent PNGs to PDFs and mentions wkhtmltopdf, indicating a potential social engineering pretext.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=add+transparent+png+to+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.w-sindustrial.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437041/nanuzinaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuvatifi.artsstudentsassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070109/foselodubaguvaz_gabarejizira_xijutumizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webuzek.jacandhugo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/fowisiti.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/1/0434/2287/5813/files/80471981395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8838/0061/files/lunowalixetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7968/7574/files/tuwuzotowubove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5124/5987/files/rivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/29604047279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/7754/6663/files/my_blue_book_of_grammar_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/rusifugovutukafirexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9263/0940/files/definicion_de_ontologia_en_filosofia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9735/7472/files/52782719543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/94964057475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1523/2923/files/1805134753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9228/5342/files/sotolezugovejabasir.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_off000063c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63C2 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 86e8fb44e0ce9b623f81c2f6b82070405d2d99369277d3bf91c8e24f8b262423
font_01_sfnt_off00007563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7563 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 20d43992d81848c05c49258f2e5a53ab39f7b44d077a6e68455235a23e0f7bbb