Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e6698377e3ceb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8995bb6c0cb545e84b46185f05214a58 SHA-1: 20e68ab798185f4968af4c89bef73cc0f24d7507 SHA-256: b2e6698377e3ceb65b28ad8a7fe64ba0378c9a6194d52e05474abf5f88b79cb3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=budapest+tourist+guide+pdf', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to a 'Budapest tourist guide pdf', reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious one, indicates a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=budapest+tourist+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juvara.petitebakery.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/zukekojukiviluketib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.villinlannen.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710628/xabukibaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camppepper.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/1217584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ponizud.newukmusicals.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/bozekigumi_pawor.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/1/0437/8863/2213/files/43734351066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0557/4309/files/katufipimaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3266/9334/files/shutter_speed_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5143/4659/files/zemodozororumazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1320/8226/files/tunemokimesavowobifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9232/8104/files/zukesajukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9191/7989/files/cervicogenic_headache_stretching_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2066/2422/files/john_deere_240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7430/6727/files/porufowopexamawafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9831/files/ralonopofolezuviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2953/6676/files/95180702464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9432/4888/files/fexalosezakafuxaliwumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8239/0431/files/85193223350.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_off00007ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ADE 5224 bytes
SHA-256: eeca2365e4c0aab9b1f9b415d956ddf0778fa1c215af03db799ae4764585f5fc
font_01_sfnt_off00008cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB5 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 57534dbbddacf4f5a62ecf3acdf7e6220169c71e839174cb2cf05e71e617008c