Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d362308d5ae9e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 71a3e05a53a5bc73160353444d5a956d SHA-1: 66406c9b074ebec2c5c4b864d66050348ae694ef SHA-256: c4d362308d5ae9e7d98cba56662ac399380e79f18bcf89a6300b21e2d19984b8
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 ttraff.ru. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and numerous other URLs hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other file-sharing services, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking and lure victims. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a large number of external links were embedded.

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=abordagem+metodol%25C3%25B3gica+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.greatscottideas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/dosanabiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cleanandgreeninfo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/xekevizafu_zejetamekekebe_vaduvovebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ivyleaguenursery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407698/5675274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nmecfg.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969166/nejolipeta.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/1/0434/6337/7048/files/83540486978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/36162235444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3630/files/xujejopurowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3278/8648/files/88761429758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5269/4680/files/62917269965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/lijamegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6634/3072/files/vupupugogudelefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/26052980694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1274/3591/files/54273232277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6545/9366/files/29896216582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7913/files/11017047882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/70049349958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3204/2920/files/67813540571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3943/8486/files/nezugabofepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3876/0342/files/65682095301.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_off00006863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6863 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 80e1ea4f92b0ff251f28272fabd2a9446a6a079436dfb03b181c493d7679c9b4
font_01_sfnt_off00007af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF9 12440 bytes
SHA-256: 068105b6f012c7b9d548757eaef04cbaa1076a8f2ce42f94ad2bcc11ff226303