Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce6981371fcb3ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f0e6373036a086dfec12079da46cce4 SHA-1: b4ed9939b965ee75e709010c75337920e006c6b0 SHA-256: 6ce6981371fcb3ab9a047332eb47eba766cb98718aead0c4a7a2f8e40a853906
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to redirectors like 'ttraff.ru', suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially engage in phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of SEO-optimized link farms further supports a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate malicious redirection.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=real+estate+australia+forms In PDF document text
    • http://files.relaxationretreathealthbenefits.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397971/351669e80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.standrewstheatrecompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606789/7400817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wbphoto.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874201/lumajapegavakaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acds-clsa.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/4c52493ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clearcreekwatershedcoalition.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968988/tupodabin_rumujed_sosupegofekuman.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/1/0437/1942/6198/files/rabifiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0033/8331/files/64846012392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9606/3652/files/49874440345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0599/3375/files/50881054535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2879/files/sintesis_de_los_lipidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/8772033183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8365/2506/files/91228047034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7914/7176/files/fazuvagidumaxolamuwofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2368/7067/files/vudemamaxukodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0431/3247/files/deep_purple_keyboard_sheet_music.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_off00005abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ABD 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 478d9cc0a7fd9c8f4cdfb7cde7d4c6ca6b398be00ab533b0b663322f3e4274dd
font_01_sfnt_off00006b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B63 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 530280539bcb58c2587f4821729dc86ec8d4f63e400ff1b21c9252562b673b61