Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ad8c12d8a1c1ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 13:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0e84a792f14bed0293ac657d7cc4c6c3 SHA-1: b6f42c655d7440dc2cfdc85b550a4dbefa7de3f7 SHA-256: e2ad8c12d8a1c1eea74e08786e9bf0d093b1763e1cbf340c2462e6989de118cd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a redirector, ttraff.ru, which is associated with malicious activity. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the malicious intent of directing users to external content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution behaviors.

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=summertime+saga+full+game+data+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.saiportraits.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/ac097c61f73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brightenthebrain.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/112b58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xopufo.mrshemlersclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/2251918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tinytreasurehomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775182/2042196.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/1/0431/6243/5739/files/30781831113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5957/6986/files/robijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0228/1374/files/kofepiguzozemagifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8933/7256/files/limekazifozejusebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4151/2855/files/14731160199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3279/7603/files/menilabejipasane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3458/0891/files/retensio_plasenta_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4419/9829/files/chavacano_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8205/5842/files/39161432470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4386/2181/files/kalasategijuzunuxejijepix.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_off00005444.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5444 5304 bytes
SHA-256: b87da68b39c69bdeac63b7f9b912befccb1bab747cead779fb0cf683161a8a5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000663a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663A 10928 bytes
SHA-256: a4dc2220d3ba6cda324b9afd4c5cd9ea7f46e184e0b0231b824962dca9f6b672
font_02_sfnt_off00008b73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B73 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230