Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc6204c1b5ebd0f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:24:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 762d28b7f0625468bbf7ba66746565ab SHA-1: 2143e3385d34a3bbb234872903420ddf15ed0530 SHA-256: dc6204c1b5ebd0f778ad6e944baf17d1e3b136e011d83a91fe2b9e268deeaabf
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=system+of+equations+elimination+method+worksheet'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating it was likely generated programmatically.

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=system+of+equations+elimination+method+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.devinhuntillustration.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452977/7212833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jekutiz.matcha-ya.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8836058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagexog.areyouinpartnership.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/jovigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.permajackofmidmo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453522/719331.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/1/0434/6462/2242/files/clement_of_alexandria_paedagogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62894204366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9438/5575/files/bulletproof_food_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/nvidia_update_core_failed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9302/5187/files/28545503837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/28664871254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2333/4565/files/gosivuxudepobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3936/6047/files/97902633953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8548/8543/files/english_speaking_learning_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2536/6165/files/base64_to_file_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8661/5462/files/animated_icon_pack_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/44616460407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8064/6807/files/detagexesamobegevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2255/7082/files/23365866998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/49920469970.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000055d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55D8 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 312364ddf5a8858171dc5dcd2825f86ec5ad871f9d96f8df7b3f0e20a1229e98
font_01_sfnt_off000068e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68E4 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 1a4ac827d507ff436407dc40e6c855ed6df9c426eba1c8b8d6738f22be0cf375
font_02_sfnt_off00008b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B9B 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 713933360072c9d59346590fad668f98c3603c6d2b72ed941ce85481f6af0b74