Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aedf1e3155bc06cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 20:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93dd9bda94ddc786acbfb9aa0aa3d86d SHA-1: db4b333321984b1ebad8f1ec11971368ac76315b SHA-256: aedf1e3155bc06cb4cb94c0bac27dc3d2424164c0f8f376f8fa9ac98204d6853
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious payload. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final destination. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick the user into clicking the link.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=instagram+psd+template+2018+free In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5cbe5_e6a7070cec3e4f368b682dc79247b11a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6bec7bd20ef2441ba72da88219e6da27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_7deb865d9b204f7a8d3ad44cbe58d311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735189_33554b18a9044b7b93475d1271f83485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_15f594087dc04933bad9918a5812b228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_aedaeff1478f4598819e3bf46b73b6c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0cd3a8_cd54b574884a42a580bb43dbb9d5bad3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e59049d69c4b45eb975085bc52814b9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_604205606b5744b7bbbff45f4fcc0137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1533/8144/files/xurarinopojedoxidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0673/8079/files/3355517871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6527/7605/files/2964203866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9145/1303/files/bhrashtachar_information_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7066/0508/files/13229282052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9835/6392/files/rimujosedugufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4868/1120/files/apes_free_response_2018_answers.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007df3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DF3 6568 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba6e0c4516ae528974428ab90d2fcb845e31fc6427c3681d976df34e50bf0fe
font_01_sfnt_off00008e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E40 5816 bytes
SHA-256: 12e3922e74ea6cecb8a92f524f079101dfcaa7c8eaa1917b630a105a917c754e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1FF 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 975c16e4ea1d0b5c52aef91dc6125fb6e35b38a97682ebaebed97d910babfe14
font_03_sfnt_off0000c693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC693 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0863d6dcdfe3ce59f67395a06e5e8634226e44f713773c85e494ff6d119ee1