Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b2b81f7f3fcf723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:01:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 79389b58bdcf0bf5099ecb92415cb65e SHA-1: a1351cf4d30fdb1fc23b6214eb6d98d1abf801fc SHA-256: 9b2b81f7f3fcf723aed13d9a016185836334c78754542d8648ef4a294d0b21de
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious redirector URL and a benign-looking Shopify URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users through SEO-manipulated content towards malicious infrastructure.

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=kumon+math+answer+i In PDF document text
    • http://files.100womenchicago.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/a2cfec9e2fc73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepurelu.nonswimmingfish.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/rutusuzas-kuguselod-nixalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seesarahstiversart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381602/xamanoduwaxe-geradawigow-lisawimosotapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lammco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696128/fuzedoripu_xelimimalid_letobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mokilofod.connectingcommunities.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/bapesijak.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/1/0432/5477/5970/files/k_camp_kiss_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9477/6739/files/dream_theater_distance_over_time_tab_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/21258265376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8405/3669/files/coordination_in_plants_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6262/4405/files/rumetebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0361/7173/files/suzuki_bandit_600_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4045/4294/files/struttura_divina_commedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1212/0998/files/vehicle_workshop_manuals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/tirafeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5210/3842/files/24581686771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0700/8168/files/oscillatory_motion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5967/5293/files/35869465145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3549/files/toefl_actual_test_reading.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0264/0030/files/9617526143.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_off0000496b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x496B 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 79297a9fa3747d86842572880b1ad9427013d8350ff5437e0abcedbd87e2ebfb
font_01_sfnt_off00005a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A25 9352 bytes
SHA-256: ff47c95759efac83fdd93ed4f125db35244d55466ab93425a4b8ad55d7e31ecb