Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc7f88128fc8beda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c4707464e4afd2a52f9259beacb0595 SHA-1: dcefd3e1a2af9f7795d50ef9844e7c42cdfe5ede SHA-256: bc7f88128fc8beda263176386be2470b66834e0b1875a0a700dedbf4f97ad12e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=waste+recycling+methods+pdf', indicating the lure is related to waste recycling methods. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=waste+recycling+methods+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wabisi.danielmartinezjr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/36f8e4a2d3e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekik.joewoodmanwildlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381679/b7c553343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miamiohpct.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/kamunowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherwrightnyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/baxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8499/5991/files/nosoxesezewoteserotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3110/9540/files/selife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4971/2806/files/35631900836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7309/2246/files/brainstorming_web_graphic_organizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/merit_amharic_english_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2630/7480/files/pafikavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4460/8932/files/jimi_hendrix_voodoo_child_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2687/files/41723297706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7175/7718/files/wijurow.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000680d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680D 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 11ab95fe0ad7883a7ed99b57b6bf8d852bfc7502df2cff573547558c0e958009
font_01_sfnt_off00007b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B39 3740 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce3ed3d0cf168fbf74d6eb321148d5efc31cda11559831b77020f7d4c9f4c8c
font_02_sfnt_off000086b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B3 9768 bytes
SHA-256: a60cd18d5bade1c1773b42b0db204f324afb9aaecf66101abe6add0b63463abd
font_03_sfnt_off0000a86c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA86C 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 5470a3376aeb3938d6dde37b9d29e8e347a0a66308d363d90549a05dfa3491c1