Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0edf5730e53e440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 23:07:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7625f4902cd341c9ae426f086a2d40a2 SHA-1: b762576e747e4a833c89c2a686a8f4220bc09b69 SHA-256: b0edf5730e53e440271ce81651d65dea09e17aaf4b29a7efd9cf859b9f551614
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. Another heuristic indicates the presence of visible command execution instructions, suggesting potential for further malicious activity. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious redirector URL.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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/wb?keyword=essential%20cordwood%20building%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jesof.counselingwithcatherine.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381464/zuwidujuzame-kexivasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.curleybands.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/cb4491ce2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glambarbyceline.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696104/0fa34a6c45e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.xmastrees.org.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740462/826000.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://files.prairiekate.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/falure-zaboj-juwideriz-nodijozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1509/1870/files/61593529165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3646/6590/files/15873039821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9286/0327/files/amarnath_yatra_doctor_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8034/3967/files/storytelling_marketing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/duwusurenawetadosoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1305/4357/files/3087922047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3156/files/calendar_2020_printable_with_holidays_uk_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0411/6637/files/25114460197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0293/4942/files/zebuvubugizuvalofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6516/1366/files/19158679746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7743/4525/files/rational_numbers_worksheets_grade_7.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA38A 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 3717f81eb0caf262841f251f6231c41482a497bc366da0385c3ba2569e3166c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000b5f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5F5 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 833a0c6f7196dcc681ef78812d52f7b5e54613ea0fd59b8a3a30f4e730a3f786
font_02_sfnt_off0000da0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71