Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be04c24725ea51e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6fee93c8f297a2437dc1c2eb38029d99 SHA-1: 2c1a0e2dd4291b6838433cc283d7d4a87314977e SHA-256: 6be04c24725ea51e338ebb5c162fee5d493ca4dae8d11ae974e0abf8698b91f6
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to a known redirector and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. The document also employs a common social-engineering tactic by presenting a 'download' button lure, aiming to trick users into installing unwanted software or visiting malicious sites. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=pdf%20to%20excel%20converter%20offline%20download.

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.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/wb?keyword=pdf%20to%20excel%20converter%20offline%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.kamelicounselling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776476/da6162686.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/1/0429/3564/8409/files/64956704404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0388/8287/files/kakaotalk_download_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6917/files/kalunavebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/8662/9288/files/22198471772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5359/4277/files/how_to_find_canonical_form_of_pde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6982/files/the_taste_of_ink.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1009/7313/files/botejonowebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/naming_acids_and_bases_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7066/8453/files/paxovubivaseretuvagede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0100/4707/files/rusowoxunekozolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/environmental_impact_assessment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/632816095.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_off000064a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A7 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 727085f1b9041f435d08b2e8e779f4e181a9758d14bbe0282433652013fc8d4e
font_01_sfnt_off000075fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75FD 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0896b39bb07b90f7a026184cd6345a77a6766064e90d860701cf25656af04b