Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71ffb8c459b4512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a3501835ac29230bc84a4452daca054b SHA-1: 35381c709c0b6b8bc1aaa205f6ca4389acdbe134 SHA-256: e71ffb8c459b45125d8f057c4447b2b70cdd3a0f3b10c5fcbf749a28043d6aa1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.ru URL, which is a known redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=decision+table+questions+answers+istqb In PDF document text
    • http://files.jonathanacollura.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874338/kesofexekasitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gbccollege.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/7932936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pisago.ckdpc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681231/52c17362.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/1/0438/5318/5174/files/lewewekarawilomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5657/0274/files/50735202427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9445/files/bavosulefuwixabozemotazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6587/6379/files/10207894758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/discord_font_commands.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3720/2344/files/12496555279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5322/3829/files/bowring_treaty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2385/8850/files/php_db_class.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5802/7928/files/rusezuvekipobebivuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7880/2846/files/68467849465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8054/8503/files/jafiwudawu.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000657a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x657A 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 674f2ceac280ba68fea5575b3c4297cd2af41b20942975e80e3bc92ad8471a9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000771e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771E 10284 bytes
SHA-256: c9c1203f47c02742a90e4fabcb2134b3aba61329a7572b055c703fdca92e93ac

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