Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da0c2bf8ac0a60b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1aca3d81404bd072d343fd0cfd21a30 SHA-1: e0d2c66123af3049769ad0bb154ce88758274985 SHA-256: da0c2bf8ac0a60b0ec2753ca27009822001f34d3183bc4ac64b459c1795609c5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify, and one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=abrsm+piano+grade+4+scales+pdf, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=abrsm+piano+grade+4+scales+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.78thfrasersmontreal.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453245/loviferojosozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roejendradesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406762/wugagumigejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedovopu.miamigardensflcarpetcleaning.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453850/4079872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracesaunders.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740458/nejezigokeparupigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myapexhomeinspection.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681293/8893623.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/1/0437/2457/0792/files/74350030196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nalekubaserigudopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3524/7271/files/80445756670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/gezelupaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7811/files/punctuation_marks_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/student_budget_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9819/3566/files/51475125771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0154/files/23941125778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4749/2506/files/dusakupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7143/9001/files/90326260192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1274/1529/files/32884453257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5584/0409/files/73780448481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2590/7368/files/situpemokibiponusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/43653448749.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000053c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53C1 4068 bytes
SHA-256: 5fef96bbff605ffda97e8034b70d74c7b8c60ddfdedd06e746efe1701e7f4c2c
font_01_sfnt_off00006226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6226 5692 bytes
SHA-256: 032bd9de8a002205e0b39770bad6f88959bd66ce6eeb62bb34730b681a48d02d
font_02_sfnt_off00007561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7561 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf450fab862dc3f1839c9f3547b9c38154b177690130a0a33cd4a2ce3a03ec7