Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0b540f2de4812e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:40:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 680aa3ba3d72757db26a8b55173ac752 SHA-1: e6541a7072a25fa24f42acbaecdf3526bf8867f9 SHA-256: c0b540f2de4812e4aad5ec0a4838d9e87a179ea92c0d916219ecaf2310282f32
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=apple+arcade+android'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a scam or phishing site.

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=apple+arcade+android In PDF document text
    • http://bulopi.danaesplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739826/012e20aa30ae04a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tirugeg.westchestercounties.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/ximukiwafazavodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brianwhitson.me/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710630/feturopunuzox-lomeparene-petasopudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xapuzazo.dustinwills.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383982/tupunamojele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6681/7689/files/rezowibawivusofiwedavotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9997/1999/files/77649580310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7747/6253/files/xufaraxexetale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/nasajaturesuxakilowuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5143/3627/files/paradise_lost_book_4_line_by_line_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5715/1142/files/alan_turing_the_enigma_by_andrew_hodges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0240/4769/files/wirumaluxapilomewidobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/gakibisotokigitamasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9819/3573/files/bart_route_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0521/2832/files/1745972914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9306/4870/files/3702265320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2958/4293/files/csgo_autoexec_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9699/7030/files/dupont_schedule_template.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000683a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x683A 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 041f5a973d2171911a9715c0a20e93e9ddefaf0c0c33f2f3d4e186ec1cfc66cf
font_01_sfnt_off00008b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B12 4584 bytes
SHA-256: 369770b29a101b2d1a7eb99124e33a348089ae8c9f62f28891e7c3a132c55d5b
font_02_sfnt_off00009a96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A96 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 86f0361645a634302cb9799bd5ed0466cbe4aedb0a66d631d37be327b454e2e3
font_03_sfnt_off0000be85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE85 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e