Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e288b9930be33c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 00:59:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3d29a22fe43602cbf365d9757b6dafff SHA-1: c476dd8495e7a5563179235dffce704ba7b92fd3 SHA-256: e288b9930be33c7feb027e3c5fdfb5b679e626346a06482f60ac111fd5ef0ded
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic match for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=banking+management+system+project+in+c+pdf' is the primary indicator of this malicious redirection. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger scheme to generate traffic through numerous external links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2520/3354/files/repopumusamamipaze.pdf' being one example. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=banking+management+system+project+in+c+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mcocoh.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741207/gojexonagavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ovahimbablackgermanshepherds.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606390/jeruvomofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emilyrender.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874018/3693022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biblesforpakistan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/5665074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danielbooneswcd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/8663296.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/1/0430/2520/3354/files/repopumusamamipaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3029/9292/files/72468909516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2450/2171/files/minecraft_forge_11._2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0486/9277/files/88203214275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/xatoxatidikazibagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3781/files/nikadikijunufupodewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0094/5048/files/vozalipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2693/1099/files/xunasasufinunupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/51017734045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/33374625424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4569/0261/files/nubezibavosatugaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3970/files/48104240526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2856/files/bosizikizitinigapan.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B1B 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 44eccc755e7e912e0470b555c7c15e1e5e09ddd0338d327b104339e6dcb487ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000add6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADD6 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 69ead2be867f7392af68f1bb9614bcfb1fff2cdc6572e78c9a087eb4b9f89e9e
font_02_sfnt_off0000d096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD096 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e