Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad94d3e15ef44ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 07:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 654b9d3b7e1f2b25c48e356666fcfae1 SHA-1: c1c9344b33f712ed2960c402f907095db71eec76 SHA-256: cad94d3e15ef44ac8d990b6596c9b026f4a62a87b3c9f1b4e26e8b4770dc0ee9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=ethiopia%20gdp%202017%20pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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/wb?keyword=ethiopia%20gdp%202017%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.edmerrison.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408546/8293145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clintconradauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/9df487b9.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/1/0428/0595/2671/files/83032239143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5836/3544/files/85049790124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1048/0537/files/maneboxafodifumitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8230/8002/files/immutablemap_vs_hashmap_performance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6599/4392/files/buffett_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1388/8424/files/vewekoxugamigizoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0614/7229/files/356879662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9884/7896/files/81832112055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0364/0984/files/trumpet_voluntary_organ_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9203/4211/files/medical_applications_of_nanotechnology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/new_bus_simulator_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2535/files/wejeve.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB029 6964 bytes
SHA-256: 1e72a57f8fb159b0eee19b1b1c56e3bffdddbeb4bcd7471f54c180d3e7faa849
font_01_sfnt_off0000c1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1CD 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 16405c5fe5c6717e0424859f301370bff90d7acdfa21efe989e754fd578e5362
font_02_sfnt_off0000d41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41A 15028 bytes
SHA-256: 78c8ea7841e4b9c0b5eecb6d817be043885e35c1df9c908e35d4177d0e4f3bef