Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b57fa7ef0298f861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: acd6df77c365fd24c7c5f02de2354290 SHA-1: e1ada4e9aef374b5246c726f93b77e50c925c467 SHA-256: b57fa7ef0298f861801781fe10ff99fdbf0722459e9448f79f022ea935db1e56
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link disguised as a download for 'zombie catchers hack mod app'. This link redirects to ttraff.ru, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/pify?keyword=zombie+catchers+hack+mod+app In PDF document text
    • http://files.columbiapage.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696174/eee9261c2294d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pawneeil.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407572/xafolanum_gejeraxesag_paxub_zovawenavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lunaleathers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/gofukaxududepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.directinservicetraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/cc2d120640221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kirkistownprimaryschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740424/ded228e599a0071.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/1/0428/2135/3635/files/tenaresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/zegemuxitifafosofenoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4949/1359/files/dexisugupixabuxemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6187/7665/files/clinical_laboratory_hematology_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3033/8966/files/jagolukekibovukena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91025233068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9644/6878/files/canopus_advc_110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/kajasowopiruwisoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3051/9716/files/dutegikigade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4291/3955/files/anestesia_regional_intravenosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0692/files/darededirifizemogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nemevisofopanufu.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_off00005eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EAE 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 10a91b49f2bbb7d6ea4e8cd5800f8eaa3448ff99156ead4549d92303d92fd2d6
font_01_sfnt_off00007105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7105 9716 bytes
SHA-256: b7413ae204f1021fbd670cb72729439e1b838d77b060630dc70b5f4b303dbd70