Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5969ee1b1a5dd42c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 649fee83e001a7d9106ee401f211961a SHA-1: 0ffc348767851c258f324e742991a19187a6eefe SHA-256: 5969ee1b1a5dd42c4d219c8db736104b8baec4316252353cbf497d8abedd4750
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is an instruction manual, which is a common lure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is likely used to redirect the user to a secondary malicious site or download further payloads.

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/wb?keyword=wattstopper%20dw-100%20instruction%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.anthamation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/9152036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robinfarmer.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380627/78c412e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vastuhealingarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406518/2ed7e5b63a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missuca.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406448/metul-fesawapu-ziriwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.liturgicalreflection.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740017/e7c65d671.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/1/0434/7707/4086/files/66535573067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tomazemajetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/lung_cancer_diagnosis_and_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/6432208224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4183/9511/files/spontaneous_happiness.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8738/1155/files/30053863865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3028/1381/files/hepatic_encephalopathy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4503/files/vatijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9804/4568/files/zisemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5232/5272/files/73284038197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/pipedixodufubaxuluxudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7494/5184/files/28912437611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/280680.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_off0000d641.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD641 5432 bytes
SHA-256: ed3353230826e10c3bbc21ae83e465596c1e2ae18dbf705f5fe8cd188fb4bf4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C4 12800 bytes
SHA-256: 5523548951f2ec6ea325c9172fa60f264e3f313e058035a4647f745804938105
font_02_sfnt_off000111f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3