Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a6a5abc08135f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 05:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cf30e7a629654e2ecfc2afd1edd06c0 SHA-1: fc20aa5b36e8363cee841ab5f614f99b2ba030b8 SHA-256: a6a6a5abc08135f00aea4eae049af6503df38f7d164ba5ae9e96c9508262ffe3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) or host potentially malicious PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=b.+e.+degree+full+form, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malware. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests an attempt to blend malicious links with seemingly benign content.

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=b.+e.+degree+full+form In PDF document text
    • http://sotexenu.kalliejo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/3c046a3dcab848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogaduze.maplegrovepta.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398455/a247840cf84d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shhschoir.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739225/bekukaxowolegixukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.claystories.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738852/morafesiva-mesokuzafeja-lezukuruvalozi-begiferatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.grandeprairierugby.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740838/robixarew.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/1/0435/0086/3643/files/83187984890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6249/2324/files/39100381136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4459/9958/files/1999_toyota_corolla_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4539/4331/files/basic_english_grammar_book_3_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4012/9692/files/minecraft_mortal_kombat_skin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4316/8156/files/21300914946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3813/files/wovodefemiwunawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8573/files/milton_sterilizing_fluid_safety_data_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/pagepijezuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5103/1464/files/88216254509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8469/1094/files/duxewuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6557/3537/files/60959401140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7044/5975/files/bendix_valve_catalog.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_off000080dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80DD 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 0039937838aac0dcd34109eec30a28a52bc5d7abf0353dbcdb4ba1ef560522c9
font_01_sfnt_off00009183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9183 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 0700f777758e2205db91605df95114bb4d73bec96984d019262f3d114094d11a