Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dba365e3e98365d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 15e0dd502d0d2c1ea57ba2dac34e0112 SHA-1: 2ff0e18cf7378103cfb6f68f4097f06c9efa884d SHA-256: dba365e3e98365d6f920879199ca1fc44c8e04408a612fddada62e742944e881
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body also contains text suggesting a 'download' lure, which is corroborated by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm intended to distribute malicious content or improve SEO for malicious sites. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=biology+sinhala+notes+pdf+free+download'.

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=biology+sinhala+notes+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://mugol.kcbeckerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453674/zatusudorola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twelvelittletales.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438353/suzijigamakuwub_nozalov_rugolotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vubajex.isca-mediation.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/gikukeduxaluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/kiriselatetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6159/9656/files/wozevogesezepenizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9197/4557/files/62337252784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3579/4327/files/44646807577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3989/0327/files/intel_graphics_4600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0383/8615/files/81181675484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7677/9174/files/gleanings_baha_u_llah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8896/0933/files/descriptive_analysis_in_research_methodology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9177/2063/files/77435005318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/govugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sividejujim.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://sinhala.sourceforge.net/In PDF document text
    • http://sinhala.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sinhala/sinhala/fonts/CREDITSIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.htmlIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: collinscovecottage.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAA 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 301fa03fb2d0a02b45e8e0f7600ef3638e6c3a76ed8125372d7013649389b7de
font_01_sfnt_off0000729c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729C 3904 bytes
SHA-256: 82d7a15a58698eedc6904751ae62e1c98aa03305173b99806ecd885f2841f4da
font_02_sfnt_off00008175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8175 20728 bytes
SHA-256: 507eaf87b8636d40a358ef0a8adc463ee532371a49407a198d7d62de5daf9a62
font_03_sfnt_off0000b696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 25b1b5d5a142d3ea1df0efaa916fd018892f7b104f4ed0a1ee82d931ceaf00bc