Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d5218a915e9035…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 18:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4fe7964c0cfbe662597b9fc1a33635df SHA-1: 751db1fee89dabed22a97c0bde977ebf50297ea4 SHA-256: d6d5218a915e90356aa033c4bf67e7cc897ed2c5b07fdd7d37c73beb9e4ea8d2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Destiny 2 black armory power level guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a compromised site or a phishing page.

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=destiny+2+black+armory+power+level+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.milllakelodge.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740413/26a345c3a5e701e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thistallawkwardgirl.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/61337c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.surestrikesoccer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453253/136068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jillshooktherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814226/vagafidikom-taxedunenexop-futimozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amandatsam.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/zemaxarufedov-xirenafinutup-turozu.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/1/0430/1042/4993/files/lasinodufewivonuzimomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3131/4077/files/kivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9917/6612/files/jodatalukaxinemelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4095/5803/files/mahindra_tractor_parts_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3621/1357/files/lamaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/puliwaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0954/7174/files/iq_and_analytical_reasoning_mcqs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1981/files/funutinogirarexurugutoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1110/files/41688761283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1674/8188/files/ffxiv_pld_relic_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4974/files/belesonogulin.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_off000081f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81F8 5980 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5c6215322884805bc41c2288bae47a055a10034e9bfea1c791fcc810db48f4
font_01_sfnt_off00009651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9651 10408 bytes
SHA-256: de8efd830f1819914ffbf80ab80c27c70709f624a586fdd73e526e4e9d19d486