Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dac1eea63b5e634…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 43a3ee164f60c328fe2bbaa3b558971b SHA-1: ca36765d8e581382cf080e08c96d5d3cb51374bf SHA-256: 9dac1eea63b5e634f4cbd7922c6f1f32061f975a6c4d7375501bcacfc1a3ad0d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=catia+training+report+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a benign-looking PDF URL, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is a strong indicator of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=catia+training+report+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.learningforlittlepeoplepreschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606392/eb08ac245ae3ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.walkonuniversity.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740852/durulewo_putugukunep_ronomuxozewedit_pazaritopefovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.enimun.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740496/9151878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.the-circle.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/5a87eb377df2894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.permittechnation.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/dosore.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/1/0431/4457/7178/files/sibifiwozogapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3295/files/23685580256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4680/5408/files/nurowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9119/files/wevejebolamezutoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9735/0554/files/34188639218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9503/8877/files/sword_fighting_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3070/0455/files/jeppesen_airway_manual_introduction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4599/4146/files/tasixokutagepiduvaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8454/6209/files/judefivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2909/3800/files/xuloxigozeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6323/8056/files/13668923507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5581/6599/files/xakorujefa.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_off000070e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70E2 4904 bytes
SHA-256: 9a27b6744e8458885ddedcf8e1a5ea71aa4c029f1b6ad85698581c8e356611f3
font_01_sfnt_off000081a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81A3 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 5f3b41ae22d7bb3b3227dda5ab3a428a36421c768eb92a94ebb9fe2568cce36a