Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48dca0822f2668f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96da0cd70024fe97f972f9408e244337 SHA-1: 39373b643d7793cb9af9491435f50280ec3e0e4b SHA-256: 48dca0822f2668f8aa677f427df5d10bc030b0a37aa95d4e3b104e7df6d5ce46
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=boulevard+hotel+bangkok%2528+formerly+amari%2529'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The presence of a 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic suggests the document may contain instructions or visible command text that could be used to execute malicious scripts or binaries, likely to facilitate the redirection chain. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=boulevard+hotel+bangkok%2528+formerly+amari%2529 In PDF document text
    • http://zamuzevup.bcox1.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871592/mafatobemutam_nalovu_petodaputebeni_rawugatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bct1379.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710753/jikarazuduxit-lizoruvali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bountifulpies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/loxodedame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/56613605264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/lodefizikitotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9815/files/15844229066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0917/1879/files/beimaan_piya_tumi_gaan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1327/5811/files/curl_post_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2468/4968/files/70280714266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4420/8789/files/zakorutuxunasipov.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3161/6923/files/gujibetaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8734/5304/files/cheat_droid_pro_apk_free_root.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8055/5419/files/79229899107.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5349 5592 bytes
SHA-256: ec12e4d7b862dd8fa40dba08092c29473f9152af46797dbc3fc2954c3306c8b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000663b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663B 12300 bytes
SHA-256: f6a1d019d1cdfcb236f9aec891ee7c74b1abb9dc0656ca3bc5ad92ea7de94d79
font_02_sfnt_off00008934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8934 14416 bytes
SHA-256: f2522195d1340aa13bd64e42d8bc59b2f7cb855dbc20449352e66a55e5bb050e
font_03_sfnt_off0000b58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB58B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2