Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ec60596f83f95f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 89ed92a2836326d98f4ddb21e344419e SHA-1: 837407fa8a8c0119c5b1e6e2f663cda1689f9c3a SHA-256: d0ec60596f83f95faabcc1b17cdd14da8b6286c4115a97aa7c3bdc7ec58cb534
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=laminate+sheets+for+walls', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users through these links, potentially leading them to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDFs further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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=laminate+sheets+for+walls In PDF document text
    • http://files.playtherapyonlinetraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776267/e653801e0455.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/1/0429/7592/0282/files/27585009056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7896/5656/files/9432277376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/36691814332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4828/7912/files/well_of_eternity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/36136909718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6482/files/befozexelupatami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5298/8566/files/powomesijopema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/33474731151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/ditukinukufarasaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9268/0611/files/dajepivuxapawisotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/35064087039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0491/2031/files/badminton_score_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4430/7098/files/zivaregukukibegapefis.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_off0000621c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621C 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 7c4aa195dd3c54bbf68d08c72d8ac1ea76ba1be5802b419eec2ffff884e7fc98
font_01_sfnt_off00007329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7329 13136 bytes
SHA-256: e73f16e07375d0402849364e4f9540a11befe4b047a9662406f91076afcadfa4