Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a3040b2610cafd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c05e2831f1fd692284c3fe0b6bf36372 SHA-1: b0b3445287c16bcda136951de6d292785d0301f9 SHA-256: 7a3040b2610cafd9638c8cd8c694fe2f1d953f8613e52c7f65f10c5b3704ef06
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service at 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and appears to be a lure related to Python and PDF functionality. The presence of a large number of external links, including many to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to drive traffic to the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=built+in+function+in+python+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zibuka.kahunaresearchgroup.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/bec793d42ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rejoicewithin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/764254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centerstageplattsburgh.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070602/gekigelogebexumobora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tnecmn.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070539/2937140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/90256384640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tugogesobiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3220/7782/files/income_tax_return_acknowledgement_form_2020_18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/setigujulorofavajalinigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1510/2876/files/blastulation_in_frog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1158/7752/files/nimugewivejevopuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4051/7792/files/chalean_extreme_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3096/2588/files/popimibasosazuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1964/0738/files/70855938043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4755/0119/files/tecumseh_carb_adjustments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/labulufumopefibowesapubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3366/files/67799427212.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD3 4672 bytes
SHA-256: ee03a9dc6b212ad268964f3954e5593f8affc8e8bdfd3ab89b6e9da46f284399
font_01_sfnt_off00008db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DB0 14160 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4b8fc4f5313d8a924e3ef7105c62071c1e0d1faaf60ac2ec3f3b355188a6d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000bac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71