Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 906ce54482660e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 10:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0f8e5ef9f46c2d710e7c56f18dda4ca SHA-1: 378859e268bcd1289b827cb53e4b15cd24f676b6 SHA-256: 906ce54482660e2db99f1266ecf5e74c11cdef22a3b6d2b402c309308c3bd26b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, characteristic of a link farm. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=patellar%20tendonitis%20physical%20therapy%20exercises%20pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body appears to be malformed or heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the redirector URL suggests the primary intent is to lure the user to a malicious site.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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/wb?keyword=patellar%20tendonitis%20physical%20therapy%20exercises%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.helpaheartcpr.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/bebekazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thevillagehivebakeryandlocalfoodscollective.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/146546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debad.annarbortreeservice.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/nikitepifemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ambitoinmobiliarioltda.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303147/9939a0534.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/1/0433/4714/8950/files/vobokosinuzusuxeranukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9639/5166/files/etiologi_marasmus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7378/1408/files/gesalimabegubiperezotofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2137/6410/files/wipuvalawidatovojalogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4956/1757/files/delete_blank_page_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2806/7990/files/zomerekobegexabuxuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4604/files/tobawedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8262/8766/files/banikupaxawuputowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9920/2467/files/zubatotupixuvudidomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7182/files/28941083050.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_off000064b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B3 5412 bytes
SHA-256: d6888b15c4304d453762d1a8fa59e910c6eacbcdaef8fbe1057eab417a4ea869
font_01_sfnt_off00007718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7718 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 60c6e341860653c2d848967b2d6c42f33a3f56b3cb7280e258832befd97693e8