Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7f2a39360f2cf12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-07-29 11:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8804d3ea0dda2c1528d08be6203a1fc6 SHA-1: 6bcd5bb1a8eca34d460d4c569827ca6fb78b3b42 SHA-256: d7f2a39360f2cf128c56133f7ab5f6747c3eb2e90b5cf2f6196c41c89f825b10
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'difference between negotiation mediation and arbitration pdf', suggesting a lure to download a seemingly legitimate document. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=difference+between+negotiation+mediation+and+arbitration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.opobusiness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/3294b62945a62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honeyinthewoods.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969980/98123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gwrra-iowa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740212/8168a7fc6.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/1/0435/2868/3672/files/zezeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/12509012650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2029/5064/files/53008731068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5529/0270/files/21496350239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3278/8648/files/nifitoxakatidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0063/3243/files/difimadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4495/files/romumawaxulemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1549/files/70041852980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3475/files/letolemajuvavezabopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3051/9716/files/fesekolezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9162/files/paruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0729/3086/files/fosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5586/6263/files/suzilasatekotigubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2905/4118/files/jizijijebatelulijumijuf.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000092ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92AD 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 97ebb6998d540b938204ccea0bbfa231af86cde102870bc2d811a8eb3b83f594
font_01_sfnt_off0000a49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA49C 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7152c998a8543deac6ec3e3bcc688b02c1671eb7bf1f1ee696c01711f1a540

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