Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c18a3e106102c8ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 10:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a61e27340ea1fca19a1df1f6f7addea SHA-1: 184cce73066d8a02f76398acfd3beca36f9259d5 SHA-256: c18a3e106102c8ca8b9c1646f306709b7237c63149a342fb48500d4e3ce3fc0e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The primary heuristic indicates a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, strongly indicates a social engineering attack.

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=non+aqueous+titration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.robertomiatelloarchitetto.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379219/e098da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paulsfranchiseleague.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438249/kabuvoxije_kuvorenuzixuw_raxejusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neuropsychologyforyou.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813650/01c7644d.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/1/0430/0426/4602/files/91671274774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8706/9348/files/29461506595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8323/5489/files/vupuwebalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7237/0326/files/dudedobezogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49726552648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0635/9714/files/zazuwipekavatorejuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/26465901095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/54489159709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/95610310087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/tedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3990/6197/files/2017_pontiac_grand_prix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3771/2803/files/66433300149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2050/9596/files/10341022820.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000696a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696A 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 6e843e9fc5161bae10fd0f8e3c68fd45c120ee3b44944b2383626b94e63d1b6b
font_01_sfnt_off00007acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ACF 9912 bytes
SHA-256: 1b58dcf56edafdc78f82728bc94b4245cf3b0234e5a401600113dee9a6ba2583
font_02_sfnt_off00009cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CB5 16100 bytes
SHA-256: dfdc6983d3c42b81f9741fa6cdceaab3e97c1fbda00e6274acf933e6ff911e94