Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eb4b4efb460c9f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 23:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ea477fc208efa3515927a9ae237a12e4 SHA-1: 9ca4b38adff811b815faab8868a985e515b43b60 SHA-256: 6eb4b4efb460c9f54b36b3ce55ae6f6c815bb7c932134a06bfef49048356c485
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation, likely to obscure the true malicious destination.

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=android+cell+phone+troubleshooting In PDF document text
    • http://files.chickencooptheatre.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/sekakifutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adjusters.quickcatclaims.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070051/27e13.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/1/0437/9967/5040/files/69980593661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rasamonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7242/9980/files/9827235762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/37430273251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91146339154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0937/4365/files/saliwujosutexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/answer_to_job.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3265/5525/files/surifavidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6428/5598/files/68653278363.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_off00006fb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB1 5252 bytes
SHA-256: f5ffb6a697f1952ed8c0b43f55060052e9c582156d1ed3b8c92f8424086597c9
font_01_sfnt_off00008177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8177 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb0c3cd65fe72446c8f1a30a29a0070c45bc7209f252b2261f338dc86cbaab7