Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abeb8aa8bb743912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4023a03b4affcae87630287a2ab874d6 SHA-1: 338396fc9858a9ebe222e5e1721e1b331b852644 SHA-256: abeb8aa8bb7439127f49324616876ef613bd34770621a74fa0268af3ec1b31df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=guide+vert+michelin+washington+dc'. This link is presented within the document body, disguised as a guide. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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=guide+vert+michelin+washington+dc In PDF document text
    • http://lanaba.hcanalesrojas.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969633/0833f3a280b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crosswaysholidaycottages.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873944/6425368.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/1/0431/0522/2813/files/wofovuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5187/4466/files/68005307797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3756/4823/files/gawosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0484/5465/files/fitness_trampolin_bungen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38655606666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1481/4885/files/bonafide_certificate_format_for_student.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/48011284926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5904/3749/files/kelogixuxajupaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/81456681398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9415/4146/files/stolen_dashboard_confessional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4406/0839/files/70961664894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6001/1675/files/powobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8902/files/adding_and_subtracting_fractions_with_unlike_denominators.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_off000046ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46EE 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 3514210fcfc170634e7f8a3a951d21ad7f8340178c3ac3f8d308b5bc188a1677
font_01_sfnt_off00005940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5940 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab5e1c78fc60f62b14c61dfeeec40083471beac2303b37f9096c09e8cc31845
font_02_sfnt_off00007d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D80 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378