Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa66e090ce086bf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 04:18:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d54d3dd938ce25e88c732a6cf31cf25e SHA-1: 285aa4df5b35b58f1c1873036e0872c6d375345c SHA-256: fa66e090ce086bf3254230f21e84f3cf511e2329170dbc5435529ca688877433
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant portion of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a large number of SEO-optimized links, likely to obscure the malicious destination and improve search engine visibility. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary redirector URL and several Shopify-hosted URLs, suggesting a link farm strategy.

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=bossa+nova+guitarra+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.camdenvillepaddock.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383655/b022cee49594204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cleanteamprestwich.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871644/fezabon-vefija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jitsbottles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411474/ab814b79dbcd284.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/1/0433/4161/1159/files/53516502435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/mejubepezozerikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8585/6919/files/purabadorerowoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7522/3200/files/zugiwegowezudoketipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5576/7967/files/ganove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9168/1699/files/tovimivizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nedodakamilutejevojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/vawalubutolovebubumagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1604/3168/files/circulatory_system_diseases_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/20393251952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4747/files/nesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vatajimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/69253218926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0795/9452/files/zorixesabudebu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7890 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 0e011ebbe92e669721eac1701d5b2747aa17099f35f81de822c82e77b8855cdb
font_01_sfnt_off00008aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AAA 9984 bytes
SHA-256: 870b55e5bd81cc26e860e69da354ba34947e189897bdea3dcbe13dca2731ff21
font_02_sfnt_off0000acfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACFB 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e