Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da4a66eeccea3e03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d7282c859a1ea69a3ebf5ca5539137dd SHA-1: fb9a99a76218f9f1d76b3d71647aff3d376e3243 SHA-256: da4a66eeccea3e03085979ff73586eef5aee46b9f8cc35ca6b6f340b29772226
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru', suggesting an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=humayun%20nama%20pdf%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.placecraft.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775645/aa7ead5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukeb.thbeautytherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739561/nadovexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vifirat.celebratewithstringsattached.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874472/sizagozipomotegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theartofshade.de/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/panerelugubume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelumbrosos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438539/xumuraz.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/1/0433/7316/6757/files/69422510489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/conversation_lessons_esl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/36795870269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7849/2062/files/raxuvowitopowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6405/7238/files/65539795591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5066/2053/files/beginner_s_russian_grammar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85947343199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/doxomibapavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/test_1879eb6a-339e-4d45-a409-571cd94a4742.pdf?v=1594212285In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4155/3575/files/bloom_taxonomy_questions_for_reading_comprehension.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/97246925398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2106/5640/files/7699265583.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: celebratewithstringsattached.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DD3 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 32a78ab72a4fc138f3d2d7033491dcba0dc3845b48525797185ad5484251f75c
font_01_sfnt_off00005f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F5E 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 1c07a3e58a5012b0cbe5f05abef74578310e9fe076c1f76dac958b76e03208b1
font_02_sfnt_off00007105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7105 10556 bytes
SHA-256: e1bab0a68f1b62e0a61503e8ba33f883067d9cc02031160698d7245b9a370638