Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d3f70b6427082ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 14:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b24fd0b2eaa05d79c94077e1edb67940 SHA-1: 2862d71a6f7e89c3923f76b10a69d0f5c3b700fb SHA-256: 9d3f70b6427082ce21eae1fea7471dc43cf985fca2f6871e8ec8f582e55d1da2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used in conjunction with a keyword related to educational materials to potentially lure unsuspecting users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=alphabet+worksheets+esl+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.handbuiltvans.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/lukadafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.azzaziphoto.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302926/685807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honeyspringsfarm.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814874/wakakapovijino_naxabukatotawi.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/1/0431/7977/0019/files/vejapoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0891/7657/files/wakewimukixumoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/jetefuwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2117/1864/files/97071243093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3419/7666/files/apprendre_le_franais_en_s_amusant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/17664459763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/62912909088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/rivoposufewajixifedaferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3967/7855/files/wilkes_barre_direct_operations_center.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7602/5497/files/50730507415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/28312270167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0147/0366/files/xadad.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5888 5412 bytes
SHA-256: b753e3abfb89543fdd01c9a6ae37f12f6f84c3815c1647c9fa4acbc13ee9a587
font_01_sfnt_off00006af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF3 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 1c38dc0a5da2b20839f2560a77cca2527e37fea7d7a026dbaca14897efd88311

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