Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99129f98b51a0d23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 02:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 199a14697c6db7bd4ac432835d38a5ae SHA-1: 414349fe8f902b07b0b1e96bdbbffdac776f3724 SHA-256: 99129f98b51a0d239f57695207d781cdf4245af867fb13ca2abf261c0e2eac03
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body also contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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=tafsir+al+quran+bangla+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.landfallcert.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968931/e8d1504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nathanalandavis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407552/1704144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.slingingbirdies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606201/lumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.geofuljazz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380741/2893472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainridgecounseling.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775848/8e6607.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/1/0428/0814/8127/files/21415051471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/79701079259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7686/1606/files/fipovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7827/0619/files/22643627699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2390/8520/files/sawijuvasomatatebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8520/1561/files/63994079808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2624/3996/files/muwudamuzoguwaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4250/3832/files/43702500535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9599/9129/files/cambridge_english_advanced_2_authentic_examination_papers.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000602b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602B 5516 bytes
SHA-256: ce931dca4daea942e790369dde3cc16e26fce26b40af8ecaf3bbc179caadd318
font_01_sfnt_off000072f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F8 7988 bytes
SHA-256: a4f2f3b7f28e16de465adf0a3d715d1dc40f978f1d4cefbc95bc4a7671088556
font_02_sfnt_off00008b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B91 14028 bytes
SHA-256: a8fe4be5a183f34da8fc28dc0cbbfd6de7c36e1bbf8c837166fbb8f960504f41