Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba834a3c8767675a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 08:40:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ffb62228f3b0692246aaf649d99d75ac SHA-1: b02e7454539427e449e83c6ac9069316f362a49f SHA-256: ba834a3c8767675a903ca6ef595b116fa94cfe17c92ecddb22a741bc14d786cf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bombsquad+apk+latest+version+mod'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to download an application. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3391/0681/files/78156112840.pdf'. The presence of these links and the lure text strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=bombsquad+apk+latest+version+mod In PDF document text
    • http://tafutafo.nsacchitella.studio/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410007/wazutopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwive.easyacrescustomcycle.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776486/gupepaterituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heantonpunchardon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856430/4085e93089114f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fafiwuzib.minghuikuo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407005/magowiwumibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artographicexplorations.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775727/1f88b3670ab2.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/1/0433/3391/0681/files/78156112840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2776/7206/files/bmw_s1000rr_2020_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/readers_digest_crossword_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3942/3655/files/circular_saw_rip_fence_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0742/6216/files/atlanta_united_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7163/8421/files/camping_strasko_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0734/3779/files/65574684808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mofofuledezenededur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4718/1718/files/66943376883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/negekudowamup.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_off0000709f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x709F 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 19387ef3fdd9751f4ad01d16f5baf699f2c0c80e6e35ff3c9f9777d2f1958290
font_01_sfnt_off0000835d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x835D 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 78de8b59f917c5feac0d8cd83df2374652fa09614468c102bcf5a977f9ab68e0