Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e86d1f0f9a6dce4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 07:24:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e05a1d8242ad4c4a9f074eb43d8f7b32 SHA-1: 60aae0b7b20b5fb937bae378f4c0ab58777c76a3 SHA-256: e86d1f0f9a6dce4cb953a85b087da2a71443dc1cb6da6e3b489d5de4cecd9f9a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is designed to lure users into clicking on it. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and text related to 'direct and indirect speech exercises worksheets pdf', suggesting a lure for educational content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack. The file is identified as a PDF and leverages external links, indicating a delivery mechanism focused on redirecting users to malicious content.

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=direct+and+indirect+speech+exercises+worksheets+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.championhouseofcare.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/wesoxopotami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biwuvuw.acbae.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/3e8fdbb0fc5c505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.designcyphers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438538/labizobowetediti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emojisgrilledcheesebar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/1656417.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/1/0431/8635/6375/files/guwumomolotitixudawobozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bukidesokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/96191781777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6971/9199/files/10th_class_chemistry_notes_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7840/9639/files/73753079995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4487/files/neguvetegosesenixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/investment_project_financial_analysis_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4098/7543/files/alimentos_con_alto_contenido_de_calcio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5708/files/rulobarikomadelijabifopef.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_off0000c9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D0 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CB 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc66a77972a091291183eec4a55dcf47bdac67de22b5ee3c32c3ab8a7fedf3d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE654 10012 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef66b1b6bf4333578bebd472f5f15166fe331406e9c045dd45f099afeec6197