Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa50576b80e1f567…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 12645b76eb9406ecfedbb9f07324d59d SHA-1: 673e886e90245da536f9b00d3dd5d3fd38335ec7 SHA-256: aa50576b80e1f567fffe192be637a480d7eb0018548da76c101881e7d3f48fad
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be SEO spam. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.ru', which is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and suggests a lure for downloading an ebook.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=automobile+engineering+ebook+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.fbcbrockton.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/godoragakowito_papamerasu_kepilabubi_xatedagenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aikendrivingclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407918/6791590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.geeksfromthetrap.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695830/4613525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.britanniabeachcommunity.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/ebcfa245937ae4.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/1/0430/0088/9507/files/ralidusukosesazesoxilatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7055/3250/files/walulawufusunedetova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/36407796603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5258/files/15835944175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mikawewetekiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/bridge_rectifier_testing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3482/files/paxofisuwetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6827/6384/files/87434996553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1223/5159/files/91037132554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0222/5059/files/dizobonexisepudateregaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0888/3870/files/87886958194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/22893269325.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_off00006dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DDE 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6077e0a613d22fe516a8dee880f416f1f03363148a8b823a45b6fd6dd99592
font_01_sfnt_off00008072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8072 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 6234a2ec6c3767fe708f14c89d4a9cd4fb2bb5098c02989713611b77b942194c