Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93632e2b20532691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 537d8f7385ca8c70c1a13d409b59825a SHA-1: a72120579e158e16686cfdc2b4b13ee63cb66d5b SHA-256: 93632e2b2053269108eaa20e9202247e3031d5845d2fc6711a23ab977ae96109
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a large number of seemingly benign links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent.

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=android+studio+ndk+windows In PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetearthjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/7644913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allisonevansphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397973/daxefanijagarawejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnlalla.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453393/nefuxaxikozodiguza.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/1/0434/7245/3797/files/sogoriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/63231899247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7084/0981/files/length_conversion_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0609/9605/files/wejupilifojakesomabibeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1438/8892/files/82927062599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6294/3144/files/71885580201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0421/files/poruzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9607/1578/files/geverukemegefozeduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6305/0394/files/cv_raman_effect.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6990/6852/files/bus_stop_full_marathi_movie.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_off0000cbeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBEB 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6502e04658d985b37ed967139d4b1bb7136c1c8ff06868e6b64c17630b7d50
font_01_sfnt_off0000d66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66E 4720 bytes
SHA-256: 17b9ac3620ec7634feae6ceda6d4cc38257154a1eee8aaf7cd17eafc46696b9c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69B 10304 bytes
SHA-256: f25e497973cb516a9628cbdabb9e15c9a625c2419758dddc293177b839bf7218