Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e2ef25f68d3b4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9409029face8ab220da6c0d95260ecb4 SHA-1: 894e64bf1e6819eb54d0efedbfb21cdec1bd634c SHA-256: 3e2ef25f68d3b4faf958cbaec0f348d674d23a9e163a5095f60281ae2ce78bba
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external websites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational materials and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, including benign ones on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=anatomy+of+flowering+plants+class+11+ncert+solutions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yellowstonebendcitizenscouncil.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856186/pafikukos_xufoperuduku_sefuzemijexeguf_bapatujosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobalupi.consolidatedpropertyservices.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/gatapikovukokebuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laslenguitasclasses.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/besususik.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/1/0427/8432/5798/files/malaria_treatment_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5340/7646/files/rurevusalosojitamimutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5113/8715/files/juxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5433/3093/files/89303191025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9376/9894/files/43643103552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2667/7913/files/zakukikagejumifodemofevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9608/8481/files/evolution_of_sporophyte_in_bryophytes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7379/7285/files/pofawujupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1719/files/bevaligokatupolomezebamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7719/7221/files/xebopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/27078091187.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_off000060b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B8 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 9c86989c34d46b95bb8664cace360b89c67a1069423b9d3f3895900daac7e827
font_01_sfnt_off00007434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7434 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 80a9aac6955b21cbe0a46f3fcacb7802c5c623e37af472861c182204a61ba7ba