Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2f0673884a490f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 06:39:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c569bc1b6cadb089f2f8daa39babe9a6 SHA-1: 16400d121e7c58003ef21de79c6fc8cd49d40e73 SHA-256: ae2f0673884a490f255d671dd5bebab5a053b027d35b94629ea61d7b5b522a99
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. The document body, though corrupted, contains text related to 'allahabad university degree form pdf' and mentions urgency, aligning with a phishing lure. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.ru redirector, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=allahabad+university+degree+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kinbeautyrituals.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607232/361cdd6748559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajudan.shebeastillustration.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/4345179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deerfieldcommunitychurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814157/naxozupanileges_vumisujadis_biwulebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tonalitystudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739791/milununiweluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alcuin.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874055/rikevaresu.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/1/0431/9592/4637/files/night_nurse_1931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3155/1400/files/sea_cucumber_species_in_the_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4939/4080/files/62521062679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9842/files/34533741852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1806/7876/files/biosensors_market.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4874/6651/files/35917766786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5021/2264/files/diwozedexagogekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/8165168609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tedogunugovosilogupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0071/files/suvaxurutejigiboxebipevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6758/0322/files/epa_study_guide.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_off00009763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9763 5744 bytes
SHA-256: 8978f5c5ecb4bab6b20829f6b1386a3a617a7d22d7bc8f7e76cc607edefd76a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000aacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAACD 10788 bytes
SHA-256: f88502722570cd7b2a7fdab47d32b91b99e26f4028255c645d376e49cad8fc40
font_02_sfnt_off0000cf8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8E 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e