Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baa6a6c3c3e4b5a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 60f5597f9d46d729dd65ecaa7653fbf6 SHA-1: 3aacf629c86ace6c6302bbbdaf952a06a4d7b6c8 SHA-256: baa6a6c3c3e4b5a67ade9b98c5f762fd21b48a935b06f4d9892be504ce2f041a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=attacking+midfielder+role+pdf' is the primary indicator of this malicious redirection. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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=attacking+midfielder+role+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tilliesnevada.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/xapixivote-pipugu-neruxesivalu-wifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canarywoof.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398497/c2d97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shoalcreekparkfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453034/suparot_pewupep_gesaneriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schneiderfamilymemorial.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695428/jokozajokozulawilira.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/1/0430/4686/3005/files/57439772918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5344/8358/files/62117737787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6741/6488/files/wokizutorozegododelunegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3491/8558/files/mutawirifita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3923/5997/files/xojosepivudawafakuzevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/26731107569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/22475635768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4922/9220/files/suxegufoboteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4870/files/git_github._com_permission_denied_publickey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3604/7520/files/82667516075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0267/files/totegozuzojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19941062624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/easy_rock_piano_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5593/9733/files/61018539915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2643/1652/files/37703117611.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_off0000bb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB06 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 472201ffd254160da7a3af46dad4fdc89a90af9ae1465d6026456a6d52be21a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD29 10752 bytes
SHA-256: cf441131b3d37b52a9c6742c1359973791b1455eebbc7a8df5cff407e26a4b11