Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bdd6b66994876cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 244546364f90087cb0ae3d43ec93c295 SHA-1: 484f3776f02b68671b61b4150e4f4e95fa732d90 SHA-256: 7bdd6b66994876ccf8cd946a1e7b3ddd44192e3ee9c5a57f092d39ca91464da0
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm. One prominent link redirects through 'ttraff.ru', a known malicious redirector, and is presented as a lure for a 'free download'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristics indicate a social-engineering lure to install a browser extension or update, which is a common method for credential theft or malware installation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL.

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.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=kakad+aarti+lyrics+in+kannada+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bishopgumbleton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/tokasinipegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flbutterflyeffectboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383943/5370686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.antoniodavidsinopoli.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873907/4090271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hannirosemindfulness.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302987/1033280.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/1/0437/6156/5850/files/hp_officejet_pro_8600_plus_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2117/files/61405325207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/84824759557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/96754416923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/16533385068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5499/files/6157549914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/femenajegufakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3974/files/75886225974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4618/3847/files/37110242845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4790/3644/files/goxevororaxelinuriwareta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/rikogonuxabefijatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6478/files/80881934602.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_off0000627d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x627D 4844 bytes
SHA-256: a4471a857590846fb9334605694f87a40470536624952f936833d254a6c9b27b
font_01_sfnt_off000072ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72FF 10420 bytes
SHA-256: bc7f1d4854f1d8bef61481f8073f83bff85f2771cc010abc49af21299504680f
font_02_sfnt_off0000969f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x969F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378