Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c38e100d3b8a35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7e0bf7a74f65f0fa236d0abce0e32251 SHA-1: 66e2c1e25d23e6f6a4aaf34718aa1c6fcb332ea7 SHA-256: f6c38e100d3b8a355d294c9504982fd28c329cfd21d6f2e4f044e5badbf90353
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised with a keyword related to Cambridge exams. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on Shopify domains, suggesting a broad distribution effort. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=cambridge+exams+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sisterearthclayworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776409/rizibuk-vinutejoged-negidunelo-bigejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xugulemip.jacklechon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380845/4415253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brooklandplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740138/gujidibavutivuxinugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopmylittleparty.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398139/684c1be2103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiwafot.anroflowers.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/sivememasarupaxekidu.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/1/0431/2639/0946/files/mobile_ad_hoc_networks_in_mobile_computing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0159/3507/files/sikoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9964/3286/files/58747777186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5353/9747/files/metal_alloys_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8379/1517/files/figabamunavizuwaloxozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5523/4710/files/kodijapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3549/2503/files/10840324976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0644/3163/files/sirunorezazefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0503/files/9196914484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5927/2090/files/15476910368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6263/2360/files/58578786341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1764/files/pujimuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0425/9492/files/equations_with_fractions_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lafiku.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_off00005376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5376 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 848da1e0b40dfcba6d9a9b5095cf8249f22a52372efdf702d9bd1ba62a213571
font_01_sfnt_off00006594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6594 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1c84d8a27c6ddb52a13c67385c6773d047c0f5571e69eb28d5751d193cd09b
font_02_sfnt_off00008a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A02 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361