Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a36e7ba102cfc898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 30b52ba9dceed9e6443888ac9c21b166 SHA-1: e86e976f0bd4729fcf2b80c5c658cde11e30abb8 SHA-256: a36e7ba102cfc8984012bb0d923ac0e00b0e385a9bb64b7f682d0ddbfd0abeca
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.ru' is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Accounting 101 book pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The heuristic 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' indicates the document might also instruct users to install remote support tools, further increasing the risk.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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=accounting+101+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.glenislaagainstturbines.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607827/ripulafovapi-pamosobavaduw-tizenexosebev-saduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lorainedavies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740242/bofoxeruxurab_xutadedetewiga_latibuzu_lanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninagaxe.beyondglamstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/31017a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neckiesbymj.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606345/5454481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ohoandassociates.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/929646f211ef.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/1/0433/1254/5950/files/bevirojafibosekosexabovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4323/2661/files/nazitelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7279/6310/files/64145248794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4542/7102/files/tusavivonelefojipidivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9918/files/kuruzebutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8414/4037/files/great_is_thy_faithfulness_chords_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2261/3655/files/36781646201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8632/2600/files/xakezozidugober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8583/1070/files/51906183871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/2723/9836/files/teamviewer_14_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/56204455122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9917/6612/files/85469788532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0670/5311/files/98623232446.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_off0000884e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x884E 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 1afc89ca8a49c17ba712bab062b0f369587164aab2f86a4194f4ab0b21616032
font_01_sfnt_off00009a20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A20 10724 bytes
SHA-256: c634286519bd07234c889f8ca9dc015a4d7193e70ff4570000a8184cb5624cc5