Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6bb70982411508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 15:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 619382bd1e32c44e62b082168d3101a4 SHA-1: 3815d35ec02e753764ec9d94b94cb49ce73f07e4 SHA-256: ae6bb70982411508c7ac61d94928c97d871fd5ddf9c095cdad88872aeea09a5b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results, directing users to a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=elnathan+john+becoming+nigerian+pdf+download', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a lure for downloading potentially 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=elnathan+john+becoming+nigerian+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.westvalleyfamilies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813834/pitepegixusedanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.standrews801.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739779/fexalirezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bestinmidwest.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453283/samalozape_remowazaxotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegutejaz.sally-parker.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/xukagoged_fijob.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/1/0431/8960/0414/files/66225624130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5095/7991/files/72822760677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4164/3928/files/katefimaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3429/files/19691636334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7686/8504/files/vivakofexonapemalukepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/95249335938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8099/7269/files/45013533243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/gewifitezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/94160778263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98908457197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2088/files/feminuwuwipavaxikimi.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_off00006847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6847 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 2dcb7aeef577694f559fcf73a6c17f39fcc347676f17c6a21b6071e3cd561f16
font_01_sfnt_off00007b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B65 10496 bytes
SHA-256: eb9133d6ff9cd3064caf35e9de0b028c282e7ed0efc9ff25e215848c0d32ac1b
font_02_sfnt_off00009f33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F33 16452 bytes
SHA-256: e996d7728a4c3280414fb0b087adbec8e883e1f2e454e604528eb600bf1cf7d8