Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed7a02138570c244…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:17:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6b1edbb719ccfbc4d667852f3c81dd3 SHA-1: 3a2ccb62a9cb38c2b408c9be7097833862410016 SHA-256: ed7a02138570c244a0ffbacf413ce54cd775d6cfc522cb483bfb23dc720db1e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`, which is disguised with a keyword related to Excel VBA. This suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the malicious link, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=excel+vba+lookup+value+in+another+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://zifibera.andorranetworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398425/teguza_baroliragikov_nudigitojafe_linevokoxates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hospicecareteam.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740958/zerezonulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaylaschmidt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739093/ruravotodafuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindfulprograms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453111/4577458.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/1/0434/6249/2325/files/lavovesanedarekuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7250/4483/files/67907891176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1516/0487/files/satipopirikusududibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1572/3414/files/global_strategic_management_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6628/5464/files/38717710464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3016/6176/files/rutexegutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7418/1534/files/gungeon_weird_egg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1315/0632/files/land_rover_parts_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0319/1193/files/angularjs_export_excel.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_off00007805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7805 5404 bytes
SHA-256: dc52d7b7cee0548e774a7a136964be7788723d4447b59777d20c299e5c410151
font_01_sfnt_off00008a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A6A 10612 bytes
SHA-256: acce6cf46fc69b479ce02ce0f8e58ba9fb8d0e268d774753459a3bb1f7090918

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