Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faf90013137ad180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f1799c6230403ea9896d385686347d7f SHA-1: b92447852843470f7bb3132e9ccae3974a8b766a SHA-256: faf90013137ad180ade89fe5d79b5f0a85cf81161ac613bf6eb0bed0179c5586
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on cdn.shopify.com but lead to external PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=template+acceptance+letter+for+internship, suggesting a lure related to an internship acceptance letter. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=template+acceptance+letter+for+internship In PDF document text
    • http://zejil.kschnallart.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303354/tezokam-fegavepixupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redsledornaments.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/6113848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.falconhillbz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384300/kawemuvebupozazaj.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/1/0431/9143/5422/files/27200448035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13170590630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4701/files/25631444475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9679/3503/files/tibufuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6209/9097/files/varovolugezemugepawoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2074/2819/files/bixajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2945/7064/files/sheet_metal_gusset_design_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8530/7808/files/96933465119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/list_of_ethical_principles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/5156/5475/files/windows_10_version_1803_stuck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8577/files/commercial_offer_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8134/files/boziruj.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_off000067c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C2 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2add23bf81031df9354faeae7228a2746f845095d93c7c676ef83992e16f10
font_01_sfnt_off0000787a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787A 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 975196608430909ba6e321cfeb533d06eeccc15406e1a6952f914eac2f953b73
font_02_sfnt_off00009b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B04 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333