Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 596a6339286a7f2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 09:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a13520bb0c51ee989d7495e65fe7583 SHA-1: 62da2b5da321f080616106ce7c7c07c14d32c808 SHA-256: 596a6339286a7f2a55350911ee21ab78eed160c7232d72cc5f4804a8103d1d4d
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm, with many links hosted on Shopify, but the primary malicious link is the redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a 'flow wrapping machine manual'. The presence of a remote-support tool lure suggests a potential pretext for gaining unauthorized access. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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=flow+wrapping+machine+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.capewaycleaning.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874097/mijuwafojopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naminggraceinthedomesticchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606275/32da4ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lufemo.rebeccahornbeam.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378970/tozaxobozabe-rikugakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.superiorusa.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872298/6414484.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/1/0434/5593/8725/files/bseb_10th_result_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8676/5475/files/maxavapijinivevanotewudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3685/8773/files/yeti_bike_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7333/8533/files/tutugajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9354/1535/files/make_your_own_report_cards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4549/4684/files/auto_tune_free_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1336/files/86251668213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4973/8650/files/koruxakanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/revekililonalerovezotojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3445/1874/files/zekopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1531/5349/files/13971610894.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_off000079b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B6 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 79771692b16308bbc433b03fbc3b27280d0bcb9168c48cde2c9c177b4f65f33f
font_01_sfnt_off00008b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B58 13736 bytes
SHA-256: fbadb1206e3022d2bcb7c7bb93d5257edb0c9224d3bf7430e05d600781c821cd