Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c178ce118f817836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 23:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 24766cb83afdad361125b8c72dedc563 SHA-1: 989ed6e36d07b4b6712e7c886a545b75de6c961a SHA-256: c178ce118f817836b3476105c7e996a36635cbd663ed4237194ddbb355fc1c45
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `ttraff.ru`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com` but some on other suspicious domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The presence of a download button lure further supports a malicious intent to trick the user into navigating to the malicious link.

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=penguin+reader+level+3+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.stevedurow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738550/ccb7e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.geriatricsuamsrioa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383384/eb518cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jdeducation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606630/424528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thenorthwoodsnews.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438190/dubuju.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/1/0437/3485/9941/files/28785283314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4690/3709/files/pafenavavojopabijuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9350/8771/files/70885605431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5625/9491/files/93182899538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9663/6580/files/jumuxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/league_of_legends_not_opening_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5196/6873/files/3046572499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6970/2306/files/42782400679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6917/8017/files/vacuna_antineumoccica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5935/5558/files/monthly_attendance_register_format_for_employees.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_off00004f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F37 6044 bytes
SHA-256: bb079e52f20d04782e6b74cca6daf2ffae21beb543aa54af5b81506ec8154730
font_01_sfnt_off000063e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E6 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 61a0f70e6e53e0a8c6d79c86aaec89615cd50f887d773c6632d3962cb05089bc
font_02_sfnt_off00007586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7586 10240 bytes
SHA-256: ee2139dff0ef5ab59657d6e0a5a2643c2efe87ce10cf55e24526302d8aad2b31
font_03_sfnt_off000098ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98AD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333