Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1a58a3cd04fbb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7e2e21484f89dfaecf5d1efeb79b02cc SHA-1: c48106b70fbb6aa7d05af6e2308e068eed1f82a4 SHA-256: ae1a58a3cd04fbb69893241b3d8f5c53198fdb2cc32885dc22267e1668ea8a77
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 external PDF files hosted on various domains. One of the primary links redirects to a known malicious URL, ttraff.ru, which is likely used for further malicious redirection or phishing. The document body contains garbled text along with the primary malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a social engineering attack aimed at luring users to malicious 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=igo+primo+usa In PDF document text
    • http://files.theimaginariumnh.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384173/82b7f9755762e93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.randymcmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775446/1922930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.babylonreader.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/4537905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fortis-fp.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/ximafujera-gutiwido-toritekom.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/1/0429/1022/0447/files/92106353051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/vesexezonugaritutunedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4856/6933/files/20079144664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7917/8142/files/superman_returns_video_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mijafovaginidobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3174/1095/files/54538411627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6278/7237/files/jezozavogisinepigesidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6288/6554/files/23238037294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7211/7141/files/wadokezexurubutubimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3024/files/sosetozabaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8521/7436/files/mufuraxoxe.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E77 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 3da8cf6181cc49be09b2de3ddcc131304744b0ff635fbd370272841121c36293
font_01_sfnt_off00006f8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8F 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 1e7141a3fa137fa3565f394821beba5efb810596ae9922ba1f777913569c99d8
font_02_sfnt_off00009295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9295 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 1b44218257806f750c7fedc2cca84b6b30ff477c2da870f9e14c0541087d9c9f