Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0606e0f07d5e593…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b8b2ec9c88a15e7f98dbbc4561ddb4b SHA-1: 0776ed4cd27eb99c8cd079a00a5fadedf23f5d7b SHA-256: f0606e0f07d5e593dae4aed1524cd1b2eb87c2d896d861e6b67c5f7aea0184f9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, but the primary malicious URL is the redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the title 'Ikea in china case study pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=ikea+in+china+case+study+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madegof.northcountrydrafthorseclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/mivodoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teacakeandgaming.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739712/6938523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hmjones.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071043/womivo.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/1/0437/4996/5985/files/13402648175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5653/7505/files/revit_architecture_tutorials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7003/6904/files/the_marshall_mathers_lp_2_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8601/8712/files/43963239689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5476/files/4391980830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9784/8996/files/91427043382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/icao_annex_14_volume_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5874/8837/files/21803407052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9993/8211/files/36531118313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2492/4319/files/30310260703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/zepogikiviwafaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4493/files/tetobixajozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2133/4688/files/50980430899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/kivasiwovugabof.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_off00006962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6962 5216 bytes
SHA-256: e98ea8aa88cef225dc5662a490277add10294dcd7b285f16e925c08c9f7c58f3
font_01_sfnt_off00007b31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B31 10072 bytes
SHA-256: d732c18e577711224e286739360eb5453eaa8d91dee731ce4079050739efcb8a