Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9039074bb21fd2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:09:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3a395274f86a2cddf00efa31033f34e3 SHA-1: e84fa24d5aa00ef6f55cd73214c52f114f3bfa25 SHA-256: f9039074bb21fd2f9137696af5767ceceb110b5cf53655ffcdf9fa52f5eb5250
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'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a link to a PDF about leadership theories. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=trait+and+behavioral+theories+of+leadership+pdf', which is likely used to redirect the user to a further malicious 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=trait+and+behavioral+theories+of+leadership+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelmoretti.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/7a8ccaa4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zijak.theworldofmcewan.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/1765928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ekilmp.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070754/bakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuxafewi.littleblessingsofaloha.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/xamusuniwozisanef.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/1/0437/2204/7638/files/kofemolejekowizonoroganix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2892/3046/files/21407021539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5063/1319/files/cultura_do_abacateiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8981/3909/files/wugewulokused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5462/7993/files/how_to_develop_confidence_in_public_speaking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2199/files/87605298852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8983/6697/files/dufemapejujowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9782/6207/files/ludan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7676/4327/files/jarezabimikubipepovenuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1584/5541/files/roman_candide_en_arabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9228/6363/files/26166664600.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8163 5280 bytes
SHA-256: ccef2487d4a1281b259f3554f1f7811103d679ce3b87b9c23c28c3490796ba61
font_01_sfnt_off0000934b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x934B 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 030e4ded6b5387bab9d12a1f5ffaa44bad4405540fdc6f245660d86cab81383a

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