Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb94bbf656e179cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 698226b60af8d78ddfcdddfdff9cf49c SHA-1: 8b9428ee4fd75620f48942363acbe8615b0c1481 SHA-256: eb94bbf656e179cbf98084118a24e95b0e4951e00d55fef55c47e83f818610d5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits malicious behavior through a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=book+to+learn+mandarin+pdf'. Additionally, it contains a PDF link farm, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on platforms like shopify.com. The presence of a visual download button lure further suggests an attempt to entice user interaction. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious or deceptive content via these links.

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=book+to+learn+mandarin+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anitashackelford.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438459/dipixuxi-mosafatamij-xanetubovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.itanecoleman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437318/3061225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.challengethewind.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/kukusagaxenizokek.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/1/0434/3519/6566/files/71464844332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/lazowedoxakodujimovopajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2784/9639/files/zapinaduwiruzuxekikifole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3757/files/lexutopigutoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3302/5960/files/area_of_different_shapes_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4545/2967/files/72392023830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1717/3152/files/fesuzibesuvenomola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4853/2128/files/lemesesiwubulaluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4414/files/37470632124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/84261796496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2846/3271/files/cricut_user_manual.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_off000086e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E8 3192 bytes
SHA-256: fe621318fd43f98f2b9861dab3fd5f4d835544ed56eefa01881a0bef0ef883d5
font_01_sfnt_off00009257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9257 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 509378b4daa5230b4de4c4c07e2645593fba85955c5e18ce2602097281794341
font_02_sfnt_off0000a3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3B2 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 3604c16eff4204f8618ad4207fe0c7daa782233a7c9376a383a131414013dbf9