Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b66109ad9b684b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c864c504c26ad886f0a3717fcbdf323b SHA-1: 942fd0a9d4cf328ae061d79262acd3e8c1fb6eb5 SHA-256: b66109ad9b684b3c371b827e7f0f917ee6c22eab047348ddfa0eee6bf8420c61
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=rustoleum+spray+paint+sds+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the malicious URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=rustoleum+spray+paint+sds+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mezzinophotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874451/d35cc08f7d8e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.almadartebio.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874075/918d1f224d80353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runifika.prohuman.co/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740373/telesunopeduw.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/1/0431/4356/1373/files/98826474730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0956/3034/files/adobe_acrobat_dc_pro_edit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/janama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/45186377166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9090/3193/files/bisizedusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3300/1126/files/gb_to_terabyte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0981/0343/files/417579257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/hiv_aids_basic_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3607/3366/files/73807940437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3484/5079/files/26828334918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2826/6654/files/vefelutazopobufidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2454/3907/files/lil_weebie_savage_life.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: entacobowlsclub.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5327 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 015e39355fdd79e2424668693d3ca0a4db2190336edbbdd804ec49389dc6121e
font_01_sfnt_off00006520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6520 14668 bytes
SHA-256: 4336bede079c25e4124386f69745b70df46feb62534d29e76837194222b5a513
font_02_sfnt_off000092e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E5 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501