Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee27037f8a8e11a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0ab60aaf30cc40e1b224de1418bf9fc1 SHA-1: ad151d85b8f270e6d9313a346d1f966bfd5b77e6 SHA-256: ee27037f8a8e11a0451812052c6a8c32fd4ae71594a45535df13f5995c62b288
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=recommendation+letter+pdf+example', is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a visible LOLBin command execution instruction suggests the document is designed to execute commands or download further payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Recommendation letter pdf example' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=recommendation+letter+pdf+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.oldfieldtubeamps.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969300/9093647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mootingsyndicate.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/lewotidedimitufemini.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://files.andyknappmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408062/jusibemik_vususezofedimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beliefne.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/1668e344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oldfieldtubeamps.comIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2636/6111/files/madizakodewokikonafebefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6472/9512/files/best_viewer_for_windows_xp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9359/0167/files/netejinokigazunavebasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7160/2855/files/powershell_http_server.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5165/5076/files/gokimibovupirigevipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/bebotixebuledufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9850/3336/files/10957102709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3251/files/fodosimiteseranijokuneget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6061/6599/files/49101543475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8707/5230/files/how_to_use_manual_locking_hubs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3850/7169/files/bepoz.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AE 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf62fa277de40c8a68f9c22f8bfd28a0d848ab22028c918c7ee58e5499a49c3
font_01_sfnt_off00008b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B4D 9772 bytes
SHA-256: 0258afaf88774228920fa5b284fec998b7e1429ec956ee3abf5129942ada1c53