Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c18f32cdb85e24c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

166.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 13:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cc01b75637d91a835cc1a6fcaa13eb69 SHA-1: 6f7b804bf64f39db95c41b668cbe79c531a3b994 SHA-256: c18f32cdb85e24c0832d465b8b673e16b55670c9f56372897facafcf13cc12dc
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector link and uses an advance-fee scam lure. The embedded URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=creation+of+internet+pdf, is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing the lure to trick users into clicking it for a fraudulent purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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=creation+of+internet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.shadowoodgolfshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696080/9925377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movingmemorycompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407918/4666431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ohmylashuk.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398268/zigolawamu-lupaxa.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/1/0435/9300/7272/files/11648526168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0290/4222/files/96370345009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/94484709459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4864/0418/files/75257639448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6068/1109/files/audi_mmi_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3584/files/wijeritodakopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2490/0515/files/kedavuwapuzorefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/dulopitufakuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/50389720790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3366/3400/files/load_function_matlab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5178/6145/files/sql_server_for_loop.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_off00023155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23155 4304 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3f4bcbb38437e00864895d75179192047f66af939254b9e939e29d3f8c06ef
font_01_sfnt_off00024074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24074 4636 bytes
SHA-256: 78e67310a207cd60b223f2186fd554ee1656508b4064a479ca7eff9528779aa8
font_02_sfnt_off00025040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25040 14468 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd76ac68da0259b9ca8afb0b8b44f2df3998f9c02ad9b1fb5c448692969fe1e
font_03_sfnt_off00027dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27DFA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176