Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de6697816a134cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa15d735f7bdeb5aa6fc126a06b07741 SHA-1: cf6ab3fc499ae45dd0d29bc792f6c578ab2886a6 SHA-256: de6697816a134cba071a019415dc2adc5002ad829e12ebb24fc0660f8613afd3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding a large number of external links, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains. One URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=shape+tracing+worksheets+free+printable', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to 'shape tracing worksheets' and includes this malicious URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a "download button" heuristic further supports the idea of a deceptive workflow.

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=shape+tracing+worksheets+free+printable In PDF document text
    • http://vitofev.octopusgardendivecharters.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/nubabikeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eroticabotanica.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739758/nemozizaxezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherwrench.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/4512208.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/1/0427/5650/5756/files/zanuzijavamurogelakiriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12091312038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nakawefefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9284441163.pdf?v=1594212706In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4504/3876/files/duduburilenaxagunojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2084/9050/files/rerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6577/7059/files/clep_college_mathematics_examination_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/723092504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/24542927532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4909/files/john_deere_diagnostic_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0096/1947/files/72551391171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1709/9675/files/71583621727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6713/0534/files/jisajeferuji.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA0 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 89a132d49799a39b4c305b979af414dce02e75a73c347e8cc8d37855356092b9
font_01_sfnt_off00006ff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF7 11648 bytes
SHA-256: be6383360333fa132a4b140a1f156e3c7e5f542f5b71505c2c17453e89cedbff