Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a4dae3ea4e84178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 02:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e3ab64a8b466b28d0bd03b90dd5522ee SHA-1: 5849332a633eb073f79e00ea4f89185113ff3936 SHA-256: 4a4dae3ea4e841784e726cb08bdae5fb8d693df7931b042bcaf8936203ff06c9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, pointing to a redirector URL (ttraff.ru). This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the link farm is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=dry+reforming+of+methane+ppt In PDF document text
    • http://zisafeza.jakyoga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696056/sajaxitar_putibex_mazibogobavufu_fudapasemixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wizardmarqueesandevents.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070501/6607885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4854/3142/files/child_development_and_pedagogy_in_gujarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65069223210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7589/files/xavubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dusegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2158/9913/files/wijusutajitosivutuzamuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5798/files/pixixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4551/7469/files/behavioural_revolution_in_political_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0845/8905/files/grammar_tenses_exercises_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5353/1807/files/84218120910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6796/4580/files/69034056903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6538/4866/files/kamizenojimewinibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1538/6789/files/format_sd_card_ubuntu_fdisk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4818/8569/files/tasafilafotobadalosinuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9483/files/tuzutitemarobufoxonin.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC4 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 6a402e6cfa3f5f9e5bcce17d89babd347acaca88352fc58a0db83f27a0fb1f6b
font_01_sfnt_off00014e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E99 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 99f9e1f307f1eeddb75a6a53cf7d8f6a31d26808d52514f56d62090d6d91a6f1
font_02_sfnt_off0001721f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1721F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f