Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c773782a30b86d1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 08:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b7e983d84531351eb3e1ab73ccc09105 SHA-1: 336643e71731f01e530a108fe0627cea5b4aedf9 SHA-256: c773782a30b86d1ccc7dd49b96b78b610c78a8700a7ebe22828122d51481feb4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to a PDF file related to landscaping. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=landscaping+and+ornamental+horticulture+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stillwaterfiretower.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775850/pikakixaxefoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asobiteppanyaki.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637255/a4fe0fbcc200d40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isdrc.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398110/kijatog_nivowinid_busixalosagatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annepwert.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813592/454a6cd0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bestyou-functionalhealthclinic.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874046/4f9967.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/1/0430/9024/7829/files/rafutebimoxesamavujopako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4352/8609/files/74255701700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5265/2951/files/tetebavapalexesuwukujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0688/6051/files/99004320227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/wobosula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/puvowolubinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/nulatatexiwotuforawadibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8688/9625/files/61842922454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7491/files/wastewater_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6440/9764/files/56063339380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6725/files/89384619755.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4EE 5508 bytes
SHA-256: af48bcf5b6ca1bea50a40e9b785dba2eea765ed7a9aeb81398f7ea00d369cd30
font_01_sfnt_off0000b786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB786 10272 bytes
SHA-256: ff98654efa8638c1c0fd34fb7a1c8facd25b05b4a2dbb935ba809ec07d31282e

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