Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6498d3da423772a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 536b21e18da77bfd0762bb924e81404c SHA-1: e7c55b93097d19ee1a7fec57646beb3371073574 SHA-256: e6498d3da423772a76541573bb6f27747fdd6d5a0d8ee4934411f1287f7d64a3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a document body that appears to be a lure related to interview questions, combined with a large number of embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=resolving+conflict+interview+questions+answers'. Another critical heuristic flags it as a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to external PDFs. The combination suggests a malicious SEO or link-farming scheme designed to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=resolving+conflict+interview+questions+answers In PDF document text
    • http://favera.suggsworldonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381204/65aa9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missjordansclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776841/5406440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purefe.newworkingworld.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/sibitopupimanerilamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimafanog.opensciencedb.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/2391417.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/1/0430/3755/6889/files/stray_x_the_record.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/animal_crossing_wild_world_face_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9848/1564/files/vojogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4960/7590/files/bonanza_pizza_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8618/3576/files/money_creation_by_chris_martenson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/2441725181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/88075317933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4056/files/weight_gain_meal_plan_male.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31082235151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9130/1286/files/yasin_sharif_in_gujarati_language_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9776/0668/files/vuxiremigovudotolesarele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/mizijukexaxexalojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8454/files/30697811613.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_off00008649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8649 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6ba480c9760abe41692e57d67dc70fac4e026797e1b29bc6218b71d4948c02
font_01_sfnt_off00009832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9832 10212 bytes
SHA-256: e64c0a5c1fd20e79b6e41c48e2fb445e421cbd1ff1b3195c7274004662722751
font_02_sfnt_off0000bae7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAE7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176