Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d10d7b233c7d263a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 88aafef833ff2690e22eea805f3c6ffb SHA-1: 1ffb5b40e6846785629f0f1b5b32843a8aa6befd SHA-256: d10d7b233c7d263aa1f42612c72982a0cd7ea4e75d59c25c86500185c3de235a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=carrier+air+conditioner+brochure+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Carrier air conditioner brochure pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious links. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, many of which are benign, indicates an attempt to blend malicious content with seemingly legitimate resources.

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=carrier+air+conditioner+brochure+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sbafootball.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814768/kuzekajide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eveningshadeshibas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483214/e926a6add.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goacesfootball.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815015/vabutozadebemun-razaxikete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.highflyerseducation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/femaw.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/1/0440/6447/3253/files/46609887800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7691/0242/files/13914348185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/mephis_bleek_round_here.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6562/0118/files/69285963835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3349/1606/files/food_adulteration_paragraph.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4464/files/jajedokejove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8714/files/95515724546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/2091797644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/gubupuvipavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5756/9189/files/classical_mechanics_john_r_taylor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6683/2534/files/78798025791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65587220918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6299/2795/files/68044011723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/korefax.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_off00007216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7216 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 8f012ebf9abb6871a2878d9c0bd4ff39bedecf62a40367fc632055df51353ade
font_01_sfnt_off0000834d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x834D 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 9735eb5b05e89185a4c9206b1f2bc94b293d683e9431fef3c4b3e52b25097063