Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 778fe3bd5aa48f99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 32aa59019e0b4222f12942adefa48c08 SHA-1: 45c8733ff051dedbb04c9d734f846a91bde55a4d SHA-256: 778fe3bd5aa48f99fa449c7858802c673a2973f20ea53f81883bbdb67630db6c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links designed to appear as PDF downloads, but they redirect to a malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristics confirm the use of redirector links for SEO purposes, likely as a phishing lure. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary attack vector.

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=centroide+y+centro+de+gravedad+estatica+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.melissayvonnephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775033/weninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theradiancerefinery.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/kufosafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.berryblueboutique.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163540/2195466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maninithoughts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607093/koxesidipegor_wolaxobadeletul_lezijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gcchapel.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452887/budanuvopiguxema.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/1/0434/0088/8469/files/99373804693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3059/2160/files/wexasipesize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3587/5745/files/32442364046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6626/9597/files/worugowilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2465/3224/files/17956563133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2195/1391/files/musimewoforile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6588/4313/files/liruzititodibazerexeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2392/5402/files/xawerajisobefovasibani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7028/3166/files/bioassay_of_heparin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2387/5746/files/command_line_merge_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/28767016353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8499/5991/files/368985194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/sasisini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7157/8007/files/minor_arcana_tarot.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_off00005a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A8E 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 4b775b1a2b2a87ee0f2f6b49e163a84d6c037024fc234c60e02ff3fdc68f4e6c
font_01_sfnt_off00006ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CE5 15424 bytes
SHA-256: 85040a08634c3e59dabfb69cbc47bd5a0002e9b27b146ee14c10a27a608fa978