Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e30c022caf70e9bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c5186aaf933b189c5a7e55e575fe88d SHA-1: d10af909be850c55940cbb483c7efa8f4c8669d3 SHA-256: e30c022caf70e9bb335f3f6a9206db95a18d0ae848ccd35e3507dd2f695d76e5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`. The heuristic `PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK` confirms this, and `PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM` indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a mix of text and what appears to be binary data, making its direct content analysis difficult, but the presence of numerous links is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=electrical+characterization+techniques+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pawuwez.cantonohiolandscaping.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776321/3998718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.breathelaughlove.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738652/fd6a64f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.d-hunt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/e022258ac75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixet.emilynolanviolin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813054/80846359af2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ps195magnet.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739182/vumogatobusaxorija.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/1/0432/6303/3507/files/18540234884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5503/9135/files/59660458383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/pepepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1549/files/nsfas_application_form_2019_vut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8018/8058/files/kasupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3067/files/45647955276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/84051811640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3397/7255/files/51185628371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6591/8118/files/tenafawagojozoninuxagesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4996/files/lefenitiruligiwabepimaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5862/4672/files/99649624315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/bluestacks_1_old_version_free.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_off00004a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A9C 5376 bytes
SHA-256: bea3ab34c4cbf2c4b6ab9b448f9abfb8cf1b912409b1b944b6e768ee58b57153
font_01_sfnt_off00005cd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CD7 9744 bytes
SHA-256: 0725a58c6abf44f9c651f1c5cd58931d8d89b170901dbfbe37514518df4301d5