Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4ad228a3614f22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c4b873135820786251803d60c8b86d81 SHA-1: dccc727fbec36679f24e193e4029554f587e961d SHA-256: 5b4ad228a3614f22261178677b4d3b30aa7067d35fa073a169bc3ca17672efd8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=asturias+guitar+duo+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tofeto.curiouscreativecritical.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453329/d33341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honkrenaissance.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606373/db608aa18d53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fnaq.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969944/nivubuluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0432/0978/5499/files/sifarufivuzegifokofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5824/9376/files/dededibeluraxuganij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0890/9734/files/vofofewudobixatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1804/4063/files/ancient_civilizations_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/12114013410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4169/2567/files/3130382549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5797/files/20571019108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9920/2467/files/jakepivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7152/8344/files/14235589796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8277/files/leledujivomusimopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7981/1750/files/rimigekawudarulerodefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4478/9669/files/zezaveminevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3651/5224/files/dolutirogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1344/7581/files/84777206784.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000780b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x780B 8644 bytes
SHA-256: 2199110ddd94642ac0cade713a045e82993c63678245d1aa5b55b2a4501650c0
font_01_sfnt_off000093ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93AD 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 623a1fa5b053940db5e05d90a9ce41b90c5dd5bfcbd21c79cc4a4229df921c51
font_02_sfnt_off0000a551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA551 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 1fcf05c7ab7ca3fd5b4f997c5d2f982d7bbcd189992093c5c8a8d74a173f99f6

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