Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc8c775b59ec2da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:25:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1cd315f8dd812c4a7612120e4271206 SHA-1: aa6ba1ec69a2f8121f18c8f21a6ac26210066a5d SHA-256: bc8c775b59ec2da5e81aa27650b343fdbba23ca403b4b75233af40378bf3a408
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 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious link.

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=chopin+ballade+op+23+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://jalonupa.serenafineart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/busuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.byachad.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407709/1135029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kobidad.svejnar.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/ximubekifuma-wurolopalepos-poguva-bobojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xotokeguw.s-cab.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398134/815d0538.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/1/0434/2402/2680/files/niwuvisofebabutudilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/58694337274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1097/files/webub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6884/2393/files/jugoteladagedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5981/4306/files/bimebelarakamabimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7041/files/city_of_heroes_powers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7106/8577/files/radiation_heat_transfer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6201/8727/files/cfr_video_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6873/3078/files/pesquisa_bibliogrfica_scielo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7391/files/89064915953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8025/3593/files/dulce_et_decorum_est_analisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8044/1238/files/88615006696.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE2 8720 bytes
SHA-256: 7e325dfcfd71f583feb8c2457a147aa9fd70e86e8080ea5ed3614c4fe9da9afa
font_01_sfnt_off0000743a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743A 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 13dc20f53116678eb4444e6ab530047867e330053b13dc9d06f7cf161881fc33
font_02_sfnt_off000086eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86EB 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 6918d585545f9e7c277a154b93cf240cce18cfd66d6207a4ebba8169d7e2c090