Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90c3e94d5e720024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 23:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be5e717b0fc563415211889283e11826 SHA-1: 0e811adbbccdc62e89960ed72b8370b668676df3 SHA-256: 90c3e94d5e720024cb6f729e6ed74940051c799071abdc4090d98fea9d0c82c2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that points to 'ttraff.ru', which is associated with malicious activity. Additionally, the document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify but point to potentially malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=current+affairs+in+english+with+answer In PDF document text
    • http://giwopo.sprinng.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/xomejafebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenfieldcommunitychoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455283/61014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.expiredposters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406337/lutojovitononokamigu.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/1/0438/5275/9200/files/dod_interagency_agreement_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0517/files/13506773068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9879/1322/files/subtracting_mixed_numbers_with_regrouping_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6955/4340/files/94913803279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4490/4865/files/why_did_my_cheesecake_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8984/5671/files/powipinimodugubimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/zimomadifulitu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B82 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 96d6caf99e2bbd0c935d7e4f1e9c1ca800db54bab810c614a7951612096a309c
font_01_sfnt_off00007ca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CA9 10456 bytes
SHA-256: fb637fc2f68a2268a2d39a4c3fd88e53efbbf2ccc3560532f02547141eb20a48
font_02_sfnt_off0000a06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA06A 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ebd2804bff382343e08f6a42dc45f69f4e794c08b23908ae60ba78ededae74b1

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