Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a2ec8a6f62f1c12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 180d7f5185cd9472e624bea6c30fc819 SHA-1: 01bb2a909246de1e62647cf8292a0592b57d5833 SHA-256: 3a2ec8a6f62f1c12cc903faf5f954fd2630e89c48738d58a5ead01e08625d95b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to 'Excel 2010 bedingte formatierung ampel datum', suggesting a lure related to spreadsheet formatting. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to the malicious ttraff.ru 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=excel+2010+bedingte+formatierung+ampel+datum In PDF document text
    • http://files.avatarborzoi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871687/4034639.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/1/0428/2833/3219/files/82500176639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48466687054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9282/3454/files/74184156561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5226/1795/files/88574187471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4917/files/volemala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9503/7854/files/75681957790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ziwodukujaluladiludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6440/0798/files/26431620350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1896/0545/files/zegifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8577/4502/files/immunoglobulin_types_and_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0371/5481/files/36889358313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3018/4087/files/rexubutabalorezabere.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_off00006181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6181 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 8e8a544460923b774e516378e11792834c03097f5ce6528d69dd5a9fd2f9a45b
font_01_sfnt_off00007522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7522 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 43c3e7b283fb501fbea3aedccfbf822ff434ec2172ba148ef8585043860bbcf7

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