Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43440b14fb8b1d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 05:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3bb4f74c11496c9eeec5a02aaeafa467 SHA-1: 04b7990205fb03c9d7e9675fbcf8e4ea8f3e4afa SHA-256: 43440b14fb8b1d800d0a958a7176dcca0cc88cd8389ecf0c77f79977fed2e3ad
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same redirector URL and a benign-looking Shopify URL, suggesting a lure to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis to the document structure and embedded links.

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=redstone+flux+1.+7.+10 In PDF document text
    • http://files.fpclewisburg.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874250/9209f9a1f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardheidenfeldermd.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070597/marek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theeverydaylosers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856627/5836763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jazzstylez.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874143/812480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindahugues.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/bitafo-volatejute-mewaji.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/1/0431/5847/0810/files/penotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9887/3762/files/fegozisiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/80825554026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4853/files/maguxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9091/2159/files/wifebagatepinebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8897/5774/files/bezubujepitizakokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/15693190813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1958/4166/files/momemefatapugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5937/2439/files/73680976633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8872/3616/files/76139668640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3593/2310/files/game_of_thrones_season_3_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9029/7507/files/kunalebudefabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/dababesevototolekafubigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/76634260761.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_off000086f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86F9 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1d068ae0145329bb7a441d918741a4ba9360a501eb0d74a7df31cbc0b4b95e
font_01_sfnt_off0000981c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x981C 10736 bytes
SHA-256: e654f547343831ce1e6d20d5add93bc77b100ede64d1864f4d9148660785a9f9