Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a24630766a71ed6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:39:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1df88d9b5e0891b9ae7b4a4d75b44fb SHA-1: f8cc737e3a471eb2ad19a5ed1f3f57287792b63a SHA-256: a24630766a71ed6ddbe266ea1c8b84e5fbf23fcaaad901ed3b3433669c06d10f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same URL and a large number of embedded links to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=english+learning+book+pdf+in+marathi In PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahkarjian.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453595/25707f93f52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ljubaavvakumova.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/duwigol-fuwojofakek-wabedokatu-duwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sharonmckenzieartist.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710772/gudelesokulu_bapikexagupipir_pazanedo.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/1/0434/2752/8861/files/pain_agitation_delirium_guidelines_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/daxifigototiroluzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5700/5222/files/98070629227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0609/1673/files/woxaretafevesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/jelaranebafasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9471/1203/files/36908565658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/21920803143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1143/2857/files/modern_physical_organic_chemistry_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8326/0314/files/65141425980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3295/2477/files/mopuzedibufapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8861/8396/files/46358007042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/15329235965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/water_reducing_admixtures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/58209211587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5660/4070/files/fomanijunebav.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_off0000485f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x485F 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6f426a1bbdfd8dc24cbf414484e4eb515ea3e68670c964b1933adeb09b77ce
font_01_sfnt_off00005b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B54 9668 bytes
SHA-256: bdbacfa17d0f681a50a72ad1af13bc00ad9eb033a5c607b6554df4426109402c