Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d50ec7b4576c77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c55119adf566d977fc2bc842c68d4edc SHA-1: 2e89056164ea43c3a5487001ab844ce672de8564 SHA-256: 55d50ec7b4576c77b1b93191c8bd1b6d2b255566a6df63f7fbae85851753dc93
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs, while some are confirmed benign, indicates a pattern of using legitimate platforms to host content that ultimately redirects to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=asme+y14.+5+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.christschampionsministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/sobofelego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.post111stl.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814048/ralijesagewog-wobelev-kisixidipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rsgymnastics.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/4a2ac89628d523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.unascakestudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/linosurewef.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/1/0430/7212/7125/files/agro_informatics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5369/3593/files/hostel_building_plans_autocad_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tazoxusejeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4707/3445/files/jomizomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84312174386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1564/3042/files/64560404140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/lirijogutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2825/6680/files/5780766314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7287/0807/files/sizibilukawezuvevibiwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5324/3806/files/86334920511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4086/4421/files/60368090311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5601/3205/files/41208634307.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_off0000584f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584F 4776 bytes
SHA-256: 474b81b4e3461930583c118e52ca02012e8b02879e372e5ceb400905e69c9f42
font_01_sfnt_off00006898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6898 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0186a8cd90ecd91786696b9f35d141529e51ffca704a8cd6cfcc6d12f4ff3694
font_02_sfnt_off00008daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DAA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230