Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e6b7b20fd5bc17e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 557bb2f82c25dbf9ccc4c914e2cd1e86 SHA-1: d758b45a1eb18eeb53cdfb3a79f1903f685ebeb9 SHA-256: 3e6b7b20fd5bc17ef68be4fce4699b27b9c6cf36006c48b9f53cbdf714b11e0e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that are designed to redirect users to malicious websites. One such link, found in the document body and flagged by heuristics, is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=simple+algebraic+equations+pdf'. This URL is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing educational content.

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=simple+algebraic+equations+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bapwmu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483147/1515363.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84574839703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5550/0712/files/double_entry_bookkeeping_class_11_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9584/files/fupetusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2470/1845/files/simbol_flowchart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4216/8218/files/32153962025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8479/2479/files/pagojuremalofatodexalusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/99306441880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6951/files/bijudaxasuwegelusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4244/8295/files/zazalalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8326/0314/files/515018988.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_off000069cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69CC 5844 bytes
SHA-256: a59ab0d66dbf68a4186b3e90cb371f7fcc21672fe3bd5492b20b8be96575f8e1
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7C 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 557535776c611cf7b5c3b1f51f2843177f92d3e67ed94bf36400fa781b468929

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