Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ac1096c4cbb87af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 06:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97897104aad2a34532098186751a607b SHA-1: 32d0d27a9959dc95f356deac8c9afcad24fdad8e SHA-256: 3ac1096c4cbb87afd57a9c2bb65146fa20be31c81da8e45122da89088d6d3881
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a critical malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru. This link is designed to lure the user to a page that likely hosts further malicious content, disguised as a PDF download. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body text, while garbled, contains keywords related to a support group manual, likely a lure to entice clicks on the malicious link.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=grief+and+loss+support+group+facilitator+s+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.edgertonbookfestival.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163559/1010284a28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexur.kilimanjarohope.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/ponesusig-kimuvepo-vojurakofag-luforejunutesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewivar.johnnysoln.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482952/5978983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hairloungeltd.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871571/tuxorobizowi_gipilutepib_wixaxumuv.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/1/0429/8512/8099/files/53286652168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3021/6855/files/delulesevumisikitoleruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2790/6206/files/75373066573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7179/8424/files/ginivuvafixazemixuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6284/files/87669098440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7230/4805/files/osrs_f2p_money_making.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4301/9159/files/mnemonica_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2449/8333/files/29575361535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4333/5837/files/ankle_sprain_exercises_kaiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/before_he_cheats_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3832/4374/files/17034492320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0080/7070/files/pmp_braindumps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7029/9038/files/fuvevaxunumonaposobi.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_off00005409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5409 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 97de8be6124c5a3df7261ddb305eb41f306d3e6e0f880f99c4f24d8783d163f7
font_01_sfnt_off000066b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B6 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 64bfa48930b74fac47ec49dde690a7f9f9567eacce97222429b8eabd9a91af3c