Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0b53dcb8388142b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 981d51933652b94e31f9eeb10bbd0414 SHA-1: 3cb5c4cfca0632e9feb001013835f9e9cb4ce0af SHA-256: d0b53dcb8388142b8d26ef6e1ce2bd088d0a5097a5d5f44ef934a136ec316538
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO poisoning. The document body contains a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to click the embedded malicious link, which is designed to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=gujarat+samachar+epaper+bhavnagar+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.fitnesszonesteinbach.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775647/5305069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.koshek.net.ua/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606003/378354f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.serenaremy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814676/7892436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.indictrans.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8579/0358/files/powakimowixukamuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2282/7165/files/xeramawewiwerawipotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9713/1925/files/check_font_size_in.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4949/1359/files/college_mathematics_clep_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/warhammer_40k_tyranids_8th_codex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/puzolevubesiwemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4638/8380/files/19455163592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2766/0951/files/57537292249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6923/5619/files/cpec_and_gilgit_baltistan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4223/3755/files/aquiles_nazoa_poemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/7000/files/29603399385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1970/6273/files/bhagavad_gita_chapter_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7578/files/lizita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2737/9877/files/alleluia_alleluia_hymn_to_joy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6517/2387/files/kegotusijibupureni.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000760d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x760D 5968 bytes
SHA-256: 15ec1aca4e0d449098ae1c21d5a421126e620a453086765911e085fe2a8773d1
font_01_sfnt_off00008a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A55 8328 bytes
SHA-256: 95cf6dc33159b9f200ffa3a61cd53ad1084e0d6f43ea3cc193aa51a0d23b52da
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4FC 15320 bytes
SHA-256: 5245ef5ba84d1bc2e1a2e06cace2668d1122e92610f68da5a144e2c9a1d6ec2f