Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 510586e39b25e601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 11:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0839b2399c968ece48caaf98668cb95 SHA-1: 82143441d98ba29c3cd0dbe3dfef3b3dde7c953f SHA-256: 510586e39b25e601b3226baa13511137ee0e218746722e8bc87da2ed9edf3e01
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=hangar%209%20t%2034%20mentor%20manual'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL and several other unknown URLs. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wb?keyword=hangar%209%20t%2034%20mentor%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://bobut.denverfirerecruiting.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/fujerower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvilu.fit-sana.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/23a21276adc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mowekaze.deanbeersnra.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969959/6adfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marylandbuilders.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813747/1674846.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/1/0429/7300/3939/files/intermediate_accounting_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/los_compas_y_el_diamantito_legendario_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7301/1865/files/tamiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5013/8784/files/78075879171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6389/2376/files/lasixadipobiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7470/5815/files/fahrenheit_451_part_2_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2563/files/basic_russian_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9800/files/oxford_picture_dictionary_english_russian_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3984/2719/files/bhagavad_gita_chapter_17_slokas_in_sanskrit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2584/1819/files/puwatoxutorosilegil.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_off0000c231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC231 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 542e2c4d6f5e0e35648dfee87de0b95340b9ae3e0f0efcfac20ffa19e8d2f964
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C8 10588 bytes
SHA-256: add4c2fa84225caac17481bb3b68b26ab9df8e0133112dea705066959db75da2