Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90163a1315120f96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 292c47c69e9ce1c6927c93fb7c8e0e3d SHA-1: e4a8a505764776edae1e4d1eca6639d515e0eb5d SHA-256: 90163a1315120f961a2274311b061f6096b81df2ad1a4478482132f583b75b6d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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=sintesis+de+colorantes+azoicos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.liswimming.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739348/mipogax-jasetavagimoj-difazelililuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepulsefromcandi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874369/vewojeragezuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teach21too.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/6845531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0428/6896/5532/files/dakutiwibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8748/6358/files/social_zooarchaeology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46676539889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0398/5570/files/75192059522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/guvezanakevema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5184/3737/files/paris_metro_map_high_resolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8462/8633/files/tokovasorigudumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8461/9680/files/21899919058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1356/2787/files/totibapememoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3738/5123/files/57043547947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4620/5602/files/22834399388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4652/5338/files/4948066658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5370/9472/files/62355667694.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7127 1948 bytes
SHA-256: a26d8225c428f84573b7a084c7fb4df79b11e8bc2c37150a845c243dfcbea75c
font_01_sfnt_off00007a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A6D 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 9da5f57ed9b8cd8ba31f7c774015c1ee41c8986cab0101764c38be173fe12953
font_02_sfnt_off00008bbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BBD 12000 bytes
SHA-256: eb2cbcd827d460763b07ea2ab45ae4ecbecfbb6acb95ebea881e62869d84e71c
font_03_sfnt_off0000b239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB239 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176