Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c83a6e1ceed94f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-09-16 22:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00d32096ef3588d0855174903de2b482 SHA-1: 70d27a43c1005302c7108a6ea40acc91e0ebffa7 SHA-256: c83a6e1ceed94f20e911bbd9b02ef307e20811d38a340de092bf22e58365d4ec
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=combat+shooting+games+unblocked', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wix?keyword=combat+shooting+games+unblocked In PDF document text
    • http://files.iowaiova.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608037/pipasinezexeledola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazitoxek.richfeenstra.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454215/soxewedulu_xunoromurato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sejitubo.hlmanagement.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453119/4224300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumirogo.bunburyanglican.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/mabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pitch2script.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/bipebemowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napajomib.jamietayloronline.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302966/selasozavuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherlauto.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740413/tesenidukisipe_tifiwosenu_fixelakemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.queenslandinsulation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738548/f63953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7d351604-0b19-4004-a954-a44be34e36f3.filesusr.com/ugd/3be48b_a11df265f439469491f13d14dde55173.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://08a68d73-4b36-4148-b6b8-673685bbdb40.filesusr.com/ugd/1da05d_54065cc51503400ab0d38a6c457e3dbe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b8d16fe-1c5e-4301-b038-4782c0e23369.filesusr.com/ugd/162fe6_0046cffc4efd457e98f742e5a779210e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7843/8302/files/vrealize_automation_7_installation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/jasisodelareruzawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5752/8478/files/92473320485.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_off0000701c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701C 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 3c0d9b289516fb9019e6105a1ee435a6e6fff66598bef99aee7789fcd99009bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000822c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x822C 9992 bytes
SHA-256: b0493204f3118799b49960786c8bd57577fe855641f694c0d5fe4615398ed45b