Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0db51629fc6376a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 83dec6e03b380c1ef7e6129b5598d2ef SHA-1: e18ccbbcedc44e1e08b96fecfb5d0ae24ec43086 SHA-256: c0db51629fc6376a76b388e7e3fd84bc4affaee80a22e45eadadc8e7bdbfe37e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=leadership+team+building+activities+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'leadership team building activities pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, including the malicious redirector, indicates a campaign focused on driving traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=leadership+team+building+activities+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.casamia-berneny.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606968/vesiwopivavuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.micapeace.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163718/5213936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littlefairygarden.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/rutitatibokidaxuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogowi.azanow.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/murupibipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobavis.crystalpalmsrvpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/pevefakugusuxibu.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/1/0437/5193/2056/files/71061115833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0062/7363/files/ratesesitibagoviratuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/22271122494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7179/8424/files/benefits_of_fasting_in_islam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8237/5577/files/lol_sejuani_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1047/files/71461018877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4817/3722/files/setuforepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7881/9735/files/30679279276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6646/6216/files/xapixagelejewixanapunati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3074/8055/files/azerbaijan_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4518/0824/files/ayat_ayat_ruqyah_pengusir_jin_dan_sihir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/19130173563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6821/8780/files/1_to_10000_numbers_in_words_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/4049_datasheet.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_off00007346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7346 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb50e2d2ead1b51b93d96bc089f84ed82d5850acac018774177eb60a5eaf753
font_01_sfnt_off0000868c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x868C 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca1a5a06dbcc1ba817b1d72d349af084e3b1c26ebef5e89df5b97e820b2e776