Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 955315aedeb6425f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:00:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 64b004df7bba5e3470f7304fdf04264d SHA-1: 1aae074ed2f6da211d822c618598b8b74b30ca12 SHA-256: 955315aedeb6425f119533d7207292b76181ed83d19f3af617079b6dd6ec2561
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bahubali+2+picture++full+movie'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a search result for a movie. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious link likely serves as a lure to download further malicious content or redirect to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=bahubali+2+picture++full+movie In PDF document text
    • http://files.rivervalleyartistsguildofportjervis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379443/rodorasa.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/1/0429/6212/4959/files/forensic_odontology_webquest_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6010/9210/files/793812404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/36721192500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9624/3364/files/bupuwetirabopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/47785283182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/sosemokape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0453/4692/files/pegeku.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_off00005b24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B24 5456 bytes
SHA-256: c81576d0dbdfd5f7da0897c3cef72a41b25cb3eebdc8fc58c4df4379b925e52f
font_01_sfnt_off00006d94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D94 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 2780aaa8eafb6059f9223845d6d1ea40c0ad9a5decf8e6c3d5bb8f49f7f6f8c4