Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985878c24e4f85c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 04fca9abb87436301aa85521eb104bd8 SHA-1: d39d495cb61fe00618feeb1ba2b8f7d057debf48 SHA-256: 985878c24e4f85c64234e05d89e7f489d70b6053c98edf00cf12343566e9179b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and benign URLs, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=abelian+group+theory+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ecodirectcleaners.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453897/dovotefirabik_zaforuxoloput_sujageporatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emmaroff.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776449/labunarewapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.titanwrestlinginstitute.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740189/29ba8d65faa5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gallery109.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969987/7750431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supanew.patriciarockwellauthor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/pazamumow-kukifik-favefawen-pemovemo.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/1/0438/5207/1074/files/manuel_pour_apprendre_le_japonais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8030/2240/files/juwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9950/3257/files/arc_length_word_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2255/7082/files/17074425620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2959/2214/files/cast_int_to_string.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6060/6616/files/costco_power_washer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/metuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/55749471490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4908/2264/files/69849131400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7648/files/nifejegenademumivezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7278/2489/files/dotumasutavubeke.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B46 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 6092b84b70586e197b414853345f701043b40fe88f44f6d4de7c3b0a67495c22
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7C 15460 bytes
SHA-256: 1d0ce74ff06c0ff3c0876c96259fe24f850134e0a65150597670ff4998c1a51f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE06 16140 bytes
SHA-256: dbe967e33345e918d17d6e03b9da7f20bf424cf3034d27a13d6cdfabd0c92bf0