Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f61c4160fc9ca623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-07-27 04:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bef1047007f8f635823d64213a8875dd SHA-1: 4060eca363c5cca36892773e68d59d3b0db91c42 SHA-256: f61c4160fc9ca623eea5f430990ade4b7e2d27916bd7457e155be8c5b93c28a4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to a tour, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=upper+antelope+canyon+guided+sightseer%2527+s+tour In PDF document text
    • http://files.smsphonefix.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606208/c636cc0825a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.timothycolbert.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164351/jijarijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leswilkesphotographer.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712139/2622228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theonealexyoung.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384568/9114419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asbeautbar.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606159/manaw-wunavonaforaluk.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51982080438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9296/7581/files/kepunezifuwumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6316/4580/files/girirunujitofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5459/6250/files/vozopilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3373/8911/files/faxarujigegedusarora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1624/1831/files/84670337689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0830/files/5641983455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0008/files/92537112646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6779/3820/files/96898164972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4183/3635/files/96935217022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4116/8283/files/57508509041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2809/4882/files/sasuro.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_off00007eab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EAB 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 3c5001332d1221cfc663ad26151e2359bf2be4c573600f9b30be1ccb38396999
font_01_sfnt_off000090da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90DA 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 235e726e3001094c88a6d833f3b2b27d95e423b11eec30af544ebe18d1d318cd