Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a079539f183cab8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:58:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e8c9888d35b7fab7480504dede1a604 SHA-1: c21619b50c7c3f52e9ffe2358852b5b19778a90c SHA-256: a079539f183cab8d087dbd7369bf03050663ddab81fa3b83327129294a4ca1b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, identified as 'ttraff.ru'. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final destination, which could be a phishing page or a malware download. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of outbound links, many of which are to benign Shopify URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links within a larger, seemingly legitimate link farm. 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/wb?keyword=bedenkenanmeldung%20vob%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mtalamasleal.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696112/2964229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.icarusdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303245/4982592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitechocolatephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454116/vozaxilag_pavunerumiraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8945/1425/files/dopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2645/files/install_aws_cli_ubuntu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6045/2760/files/9179293787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7461/7511/files/xenosibuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0926/9156/files/pajujuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/soser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2536/files/verusuledotejejapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/wotujunejoramuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9546/files/48202487845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/descriptive_geometry_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5725/0455/files/7486936657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6171/3813/files/65480420189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2912/6550/files/87812854439.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000586f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x586F 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 78b684444446af32de4e2cb20f439331876a8ec7c9b51e5705747a4aab45b257
font_01_sfnt_off000069e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E8 9776 bytes
SHA-256: bb6f93cb4fe9fe333e9f4f56cac369d42134b4f1c028b56c7ca3b8655fe5a447
font_02_sfnt_off00008b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B60 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2