Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 840d15adf90bcbb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:15:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4eb13d2274d3f872eebf3cd0c651bf2f SHA-1: 6c3c721c1c6e7542d34d13b889f080ec7ddebccf SHA-256: 840d15adf90bcbb28d4626a729332456fdc06a580d7246525513869db0ff6f84
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, directing users to a malicious redirector. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nj+attorney+general+guidelines+body+worn+cameras, which is flagged as malicious. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, likely to improve search engine ranking and lure victims.

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=nj+attorney+general+guidelines+body+worn+cameras In PDF document text
    • http://files.portlandcommunitychorus.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382673/xojapulorenaroziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.grundmeyerleadersearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455956/puziwoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizuvab.katasangkhae.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856005/xipajitekijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.strictlyskillsbasketball.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636764/4217464.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/1/0433/4115/2421/files/wazavapumakusefije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5596/4569/files/korawuzasogotuzije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/pirerenikuluxonefexamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0998/1085/files/24916882673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4849/2438/files/understanding_life_science_grade_12_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2946/2177/files/banefowola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2482/4995/files/66548150386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9567/0427/files/diruzotevepelotemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0028/0734/files/eu4_brandenburg_ideas_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3495/1331/files/define_aging_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3726/8900/files/jefemufujaretobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/downloading_don_t_turn_off_target.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_off00007720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7720 5520 bytes
SHA-256: a6623ee8ff1cd3fd1f945fec33ff6f9b2a628ab7667d76a2c4decc3019e5a966
font_01_sfnt_off000089e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89E7 9756 bytes
SHA-256: 05c52195e9c121824dac0e9337ac58c9ac9aafea3e5222fb2baf14f0a4ad46a5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB3E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333