Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc21b50b208b4467…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7767479c2df797a2bb54fb2419ea6175 SHA-1: 5a2c0ecba0e7f9f5ce8b0c7e69fa4c56b90da122 SHA-256: dc21b50b208b4467ba0116e2cd3e1d2e02485c998ab80a9e275b1436e78ff022
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru, which is used to lure users with keywords like 'focus group research design pdf'. It also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating mass generation of links to external PDFs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing research design documents.

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/wb?keyword=focus%20group%20research%20design%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mukewogaj.neemcalendar.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/ec76c4b051f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lucascountyiowa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407692/galefazazamobinowixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.susanmateuglass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/fonufogexotakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caninejudged.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874101/6794419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2515/3698/files/hip_hop_dance_move_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5524/2655/files/clinical_chemistry_laboratory_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2361/3595/files/68881104146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2973/3282/files/81268654139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9151/6826/files/33752891499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2221/9421/files/pemobujekisefufexifavikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/openssl_client_certificates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2149/1621/files/96740801539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6823/5682/files/jiguretopiwelevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6135/3371/files/2638363556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4301/2256/files/tovezig.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
🗂 Part of campaign: cafeokawari.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19BC8 5140 bytes
SHA-256: b24b9b544424b0169ab9aa2447ba25e4c6f0639a67f1e99d2da743d499052e89
font_01_sfnt_off0001ad34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD34 15672 bytes
SHA-256: e488abd3d585d5ccb892d9dfbdcf3e80aeb760a0a52b31e0fc4ecc2bd2bd5b2e
font_02_sfnt_off0001de13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DE13 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ad623bc7c681097dfa1224999cf6cc6072d3ca9a137655dc1129b0261f0b357c