Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98063827943e2bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 17:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 11140b86643192f9115711039162d1c2 SHA-1: 6063e0903e9cc075f89157201557430203f33073 SHA-256: 98063827943e2bf77448915fe74c367325436383ff6411b1c3e86214c63ad459
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=sample+donation+request+letter'. The document body also contains text consistent with a callback phishing lure, asking the user to call a number in a billing or refund context. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=sample+donation+request+letter In PDF document text
    • http://files.lehighvalleycorporatecleaners.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739401/tesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zennergystudios.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741241/9589253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talkitupbendigo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303024/6aaedacb189.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19490865332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/96972962730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7461/files/68898007128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/93515438816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4329/9232/files/46072401778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/gavemasobafumanirilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevimofurerofujasopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4104/6171/files/40361188306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6732/6110/files/72076064009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7829/5450/files/41851984417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2520/3354/files/dafexawopilade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/pajarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1143/files/zoxajevorojozano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7811/3690/files/lomosebefojotokabegedunil.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_off0000617f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x617F 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 30cf7e4466339c744dbf82cc54d3ca0be21431890176ab7b9e80f5b75bbbd511
font_01_sfnt_off0000737f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737F 10260 bytes
SHA-256: effe09c20d7c0bb810ca1facb25b45649e26581b17c0ed9ff4586264d1c93b4b