Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae9bb412e4f74191…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a50708346c4f2bd7d2a57392159ea832 SHA-1: f78cc6e792af927625de38f9174ad6bb791b41f2 SHA-256: ae9bb412e4f741916ec7e893ab85f19006606591fd7b550061cd8ebd7fb9de5e
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bhushan+steel+nclt+pdf'. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms this. Additionally, the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick the user into interacting further. The presence of a large number of external links ('PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM') further indicates a malicious intent to distribute content or redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=bhushan+steel+nclt+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dunofuso.garrylukemassage.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/pipogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluecruiseturkeytours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776254/luvulepesurapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redditchchessclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969645/d0aafffc03e.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/1/0433/0497/6548/files/fudusekagolafupuzerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4921/3349/files/how_to_download_a_vimeo_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5891/2662/files/6257766025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8978/8069/files/exceptional_learners_11th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/pufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9658/1020/files/8979282515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/redemoluzomitetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1721/4874/files/sadutilixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8477/5577/files/sumakomolarulotanagolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7813/1611/files/pomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/29470019188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2046/7869/files/litepekow.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_off00006244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6244 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 99575c078fefff04130d81070408d0e2785f012d91fbef7cbe95f116913aa2ac
font_01_sfnt_off000073ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73EC 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 6735f85b5b221579ac1bfa74e1ede2d945b73009d726b523aa609ff94648509a
font_02_sfnt_off0000969a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x969A 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e