Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2069ea38362003d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 20958c2a138c3455a738d1e2ce6d2fda SHA-1: f46bbf27bdea043c94c14f37578e115bd631927e SHA-256: b2069ea38362003ddb65027751e263434caf5d4b620da0625fa8eee10b969f61
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=addition+of+similar+and+dissimilar+fractions+worksheets' is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=addition+of+similar+and+dissimilar+fractions+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://fanana.niagarasuicidepreventioncoalition.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/d226b03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bearvalleykidscamp.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814631/dopoloxigemelo-faxufofawus-lowasilof.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/1/0432/3924/3943/files/fegopipotefoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0755/7283/files/belajar_gitar_klasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/5426/1401/files/fnma_guidelines_for_mortgage_lates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1940/2405/files/virijewatobabedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6128/8868/files/15483905206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4235/4853/files/general_zoology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0085/files/carga_electrica_fisica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0192/7064/files/inventory_sheet_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3257/5132/files/wategunid.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6787 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2a00904df8685597a97588f29123f11485d6033d6ec2d060f3b78d60b3c175
font_01_sfnt_off000079c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79C7 9836 bytes
SHA-256: c24652e27808683ab018364b12827442763d40c91061f2c0834e4a87bba4d91e