Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b6fd660f6e105b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:38:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3b03e18425010c94919a79ff6471ab70 SHA-1: 818b7eba7057ed21d2da3e7ef62e0d4fd6fb3bd2 SHA-256: a1b6fd660f6e105be585fde1e15330a0180fa0bbc68b38a6ae98d91cdd007cd1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=unified%20soil%20classification%20system%20flow%20chart%20pdf'. This indicates an attempt to lure users to a malicious site under the guise of providing a technical document. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and a list of other Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery.

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=unified%20soil%20classification%20system%20flow%20chart%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hillcountryyoungmarines.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384113/5485733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apetsreflection.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164081/220901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buckshillmodelrailwayin7mm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437889/3348955.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/1/0435/1007/1460/files/traumnovelle_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2047/4779/files/general_chemistry_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/harmony_remote_setup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6078/1465/files/23940848259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5725/9420/files/tatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/9951116141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3773/4550/files/pdf_catalogues_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8076/2023/files/mawusonusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0086/2619/files/65574636886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3377/9611/files/maxozetesuzedololuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2873/2314/files/biodata_form_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1005/6615/files/7806814346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bojakotipizijogi.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_off000060a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A7 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 761b2328d74f27cbd25f84660ae542f0e73d0baf7829260fbff81d4db6b58a06
font_01_sfnt_off000072ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72CA 14856 bytes
SHA-256: ad2f9f29fc4814ac4dbcf34652c2cfb1d87ebbcea8b1a49a53ee01bc88121d5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0EA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c