Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d980e435226876d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa34e5c51e127820b2659888517d59bf SHA-1: 3706b9b99a42df2262025b2f8a90ec940207c5a5 SHA-256: d980e435226876d84f4dab9591f023cf44ae6333e22effad667a055a6d036c7e
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'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=neural+dsp+darkglass+free'.

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=neural+dsp+darkglass+free In PDF document text
    • http://zibug.mylakehillsreserve.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/jexetavomokilub.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/1/0430/3850/7169/files/35021096455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2189/1746/files/54631378525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8508/4310/files/gisoremifovonipugewuboguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8951/1068/files/enter_the_gungeon_cigarettes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7170/8065/files/national_geographic_learning_life_beginner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0244/3422/files/62472008091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7034/0772/files/broadlink_rm_mini_3_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0785/1171/files/54920626008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/miracle_cream_shark_tank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2511/1967/files/winezedu.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000614c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x614C 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4760ca295192c89086870ebbac49c5a5945404ea6ab57fca452cf2db5f569a
font_01_sfnt_off00007140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7140 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0bea7899de29a0fa9d95a8e386ee76ae05e540c6d08b39f5012080250c9cae
font_02_sfnt_off0000832f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x832F 10432 bytes
SHA-256: fd86684a8b748da53329e1dd14f4f655dc51bf581faf891358c6d44ef57edbe7
font_03_sfnt_off0000a722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA722 16208 bytes
SHA-256: f76e53b1165c770ea72ceccb5e808e1d48d2b426d0b5e274530350a00bad707e