Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6de2c4a9d5d5cac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01bdf843571bd13b56ef88a0cd2c666d SHA-1: 7b5c626bb5fbda804fdf3ffc9f555be925271812 SHA-256: 6de2c4a9d5d5cac7241b7712432bf9ce3aea7523cb283564334308ee75cd2c81
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=simple+job+offer+acceptance+letter+sample+pdf, is flagged as malicious. The document body, though obfuscated, contains this same URL and references a 'job offer acceptance letter', suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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=simple+job+offer+acceptance+letter+sample+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.brrclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/9924451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voodoodollbookblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438809/434e8b94d6147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartofthewest.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/wemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gingersnapsapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/kepozakevivowepipef.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gumatuzonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pexigubozorabavajodumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/18602380084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5637/3659/files/11233142811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9657/5904/files/heart_circulatory_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/bodataweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4869/5958/files/mujoduvitalarojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kulabegidubonigupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2157/2008/files/brzezinski_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7275/6648/files/3229789845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3517/8661/files/gimumafobixakoxopoki.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000a1ee.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA1EE 20160 bytes
SHA-256: a10dc2187cfbf7805e92f7db8b3920e5ed491820acebd253f8899eb6e493f349
font_00_sfnt_off00006b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B53 5620 bytes
SHA-256: e01382f54ef59c127bd19b957cc9941ddfdb9653ced56e45c3554e97ced58d79
font_01_sfnt_off00007e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E4F 10328 bytes
SHA-256: ceb285fdb18e8be37eb72a909601465348989555d3367c6b4a2d3ad13f28548c