Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd52cda35d01f89c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 17:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 41e11f9e22d9fe1e8b80a205d8e3da1a SHA-1: 2bad1f5ca3a24c0d22fe91d96e3ab725b51075f3 SHA-256: bd52cda35d01f89c5615a978a84fca612d6877eb171dff21d240d61234b6b7d9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to potentially malicious redirectors. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into clicking a link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=jio+phone+music+call In PDF document text
    • http://kegulod.jrouamnationalcouncil.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814718/gobaj_getawubup_jubipinapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherweedman.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775347/fixejefejafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupuvab.bethchrismanmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/gakugewuwowajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catj.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740073/3469232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivuxaw.damianduguid.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/3102564.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/1/0435/8812/4829/files/bankers_adda_static_gk_capsule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6642/5497/files/75680704099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3143/6186/files/lesikozanemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1959/7981/files/gate_2020_question_paper_with_solution_ece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9789/files/ketovufimedosizisidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1602/8309/files/85256743393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/vonedabirixakatugajoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0475/5096/files/birapitapixesifosulanafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8228/5216/files/67887508673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4641/1162/files/98403816949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/fotefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9799/4904/files/company_logo_quiz_answers_level_9.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_off000066ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66BA 5064 bytes
SHA-256: cb63d2b5f403d83c5adbf9f901eb68a0640d0efb34680570e2924ae571c1d422
font_01_sfnt_off000077c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C7 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 04f837373e1c1a5578c5a85585f1b5df479588bf9a8b53ca95c7555a6c6688cd