Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbbadffc2f444ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 12:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 99cb81a7980b799111783ab6433af1e6 SHA-1: 81c47cf58954a781481bc1e8b08dfbe8c4c8fd76 SHA-256: fbbadffc2f444ba603fa4a2137988ad0d0c1426970eb605b9dd36bc361da6e46
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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it's a generated document. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=biblias+de+estudio+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kpcouncil.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/dopagomi-wuvagovudu-ramor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.turnberrypress.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/finosozemeridaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.partybcause.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969944/315890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.finelinesfishing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696351/kixojagaforu.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/1/0428/8253/1481/files/83501281939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/24713264705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3911/3895/files/nopuxusitemotudige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/jivikazorawenawifujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/42293801529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/jagenerefogaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9131/9200/files/78199722740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8289/9871/files/jafulisafiwava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6459/8434/files/11149002657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21659337375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0954/0257/files/kedonitulijikuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6345/2583/files/wigufadurogedixafuga.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_off00004a3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A3E 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 3904b9198c5774f871c7e0dafa5ffd96e5365cf06c58c97d512e31dbe5d681eb
font_01_sfnt_off00005bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BBF 14284 bytes
SHA-256: 1042a4ee0022c851d641ecfd435c1c1c4f145edd6c1e01c62fec3b7393022097
font_02_sfnt_off0000888b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x888B 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 28472a57270255ab3eaf7bfef4e500001c1fa3093b76db943ae929b3d5873736