Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2af62a3c9ff1275…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c6dd513e2d3026dcc8b97b6018f6b881 SHA-1: 9918fdfb5a84473f1ace81dce991bf9dea213c06 SHA-256: e2af62a3c9ff1275ba67bf3293f8e34916ab34050d5905680733f9b1d41efd0d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt at SEO manipulation or a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=major%20groups%20of%20microorganisms%20pdf. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=major%20groups%20of%20microorganisms%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dogtrainingbyhaywood.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740498/6571843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pjeterkoleci.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/f414f68e3faf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senejofe.nonprofitleadershipcollaborative.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/2553185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanezodu.ashraehrc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384778/ketikukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibotodom.nakedyogadallas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/jomeginarosikag.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/1/0429/9007/6067/files/5649966679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2860038855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9009/1940/files/37157403315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9052/3813/files/canzoniere_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7129/9999/files/download_firefox_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5901/9933/files/19422896697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8442/1022/files/89826561729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13121593915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5682/files/breast_expansion_mod_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4537/0518/files/que_es_el_sindrome_anemico.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_off00006f89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F89 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 96024fd04be7dbf95e145f6484d9229fd6af87629bf362486959d47f815e4d92
font_01_sfnt_off00008248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8248 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 77a72cc00a0d76ed9dc0a68b8009529580653d77f17f9077b998f8cc296b5053