Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4383d5f9ae0d617e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 979bd011934e138310fd93c292a54c78 SHA-1: 1d4e5c892637872bd6e812a9e673e86fdba28bf9 SHA-256: 4383d5f9ae0d617ebfe42f01b54cc1ca56e6e73e3dbfdb4b3369ab571059ad8e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a search result for 'nfl schedule week 7 pdf'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.ru URL, which is likely used to redirect the user to a further malicious destination. The document also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning to improve search engine rankings 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=nfl+schedule+week+7+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ccdadobooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606011/solasusilemunago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.epistemologyontologyfoundationinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/7520310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degufunuw.irr-f.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/lojobufopijebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dustinnowlin.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637553/nozuj-zulitoropude-zodegatez-jizavilegomibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losir.newlifenaturalhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606617/pugodasugozaxud_gozepexifuwas_dusofej.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/1/0428/4124/3814/files/griffiths_quantum_mechanics_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6004/files/xutagapuladuvipiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5774/9917/files/uniqueness_theorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3384/7966/files/plan_de_austeridad_republicana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8415/9903/files/37239320701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9027/8568/files/kokibezitumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/55781022724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1662/6082/files/72919555494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2610/1910/files/palgrave_atlas_of_byzantine_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3688/files/4834537920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1142/3902/files/dovuroxewakomefe.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_off00007063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7063 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 4746b74340a47d5a909dc54c0962aaa214c9edf9613ca572d0a6868c2e6abd2a
font_01_sfnt_off00008201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8201 10452 bytes
SHA-256: ca021db64b00cdc8abe43f486f8b127f5eead5dd0c502d82a0fc299dd80b2851