Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5f9ca8ec78dc1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 03:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b4294d3cb7adda38bd6abf5d09f21536 SHA-1: c32bce79b0f1793102ab6bb126547207ae8392fa SHA-256: ee5f9ca8ec78dc1c943afa6215d240b96b28bf54891009ca8e85cbf4ccb1c9ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified links pointing to a redirector service, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is associated with malicious activity. Another heuristic noted a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt at SEO poisoning or a link farm to distribute malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the target URL, indicating the primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=vector+canoe+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gagena.pttminc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/9116009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ianburtphotography.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380063/jetaga_bowenumogidap_ziwamokovujoduf_nuvotese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buchanans-store.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/2248441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sidestreetarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874339/9fd42646915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northernstarbounders.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813782/gaposubeb_xolemeloxexoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35031547028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/49188021415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4735/2480/files/radidoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4152/0790/files/xekixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/how_to_check_internet_speed_on_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/bikavuzowaduwemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7817/3343/files/81283089168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1357/0709/files/tijasapadojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/canales_de_distribucion_de_bimbo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3577/6408/files/afcat_exam_preparation_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8638/8123/files/gemukobutavifowumimaneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69901941500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0595/8565/files/beating_the_street_download_free.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_off000066d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D9 4820 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5cd98893683e3e115961768d621c38c34e3f6e6b3563ce166573e1a6496048
font_01_sfnt_off0000773f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773F 14200 bytes
SHA-256: be4883472fe923ab1f6801307f87d590e7ac58fbd774e9113da4a1cc0ca7908f
font_02_sfnt_off0000a3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3CD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333