Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ed3af863778d12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0fd5104617844035b4c360194726633 SHA-1: 6f86682f55b8b5d2b124106921a95e8e638b2c2c SHA-256: 9ed3af863778d12ed021a69194e9ddf106f9999cd8642cb835e7179397b1cbd5
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure like 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as malicious. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing indicators suggests a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a malicious redirector campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=xfinity+com+norton In PDF document text
    • http://files.icnorcom1970.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/sefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vividbeautybar.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071056/degemugo_kufeturora_gexomafebedipa_nasuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sidleymountainoutlaws.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408942/9084672.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/1/0431/5453/8658/files/28222747259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7386/3842/files/menomelemolafotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0763/1782/files/kusirunumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/rorukavorupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sekokejeninidifowabofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3236/3676/files/pefuzowunipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3579/4344/files/90697353397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0163/3177/files/lonegudefadomofexizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1089/files/rizukilupijuzagumosote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/puwojadudabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6487/7475/files/ryobi_bt3000_tablesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2965/0843/files/xutiwuvuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/nomokavesabarotumil.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_off00005b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9C 4684 bytes
SHA-256: 431eda454165ad3b4745324e5c8ff418a2f29555f43ca9946e2a0c62c58d0b7c
font_01_sfnt_off00006b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B82 10404 bytes
SHA-256: b0d51b845f6fb76e276dd36659486295cc04ba50ea8951d7387cfe97396c6490