Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc968e20cd243d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cfc8eb1832d9ec4230c5837e80e70559 SHA-1: 98c934c28d60809f2900bbf468f102fc018406e6 SHA-256: fdc968e20cd243d3d1c6b2d416267cfdcaf0c2a3076f5778708b933f063c82d3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate malicious intent.

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=chloroform+meaning+in+chemistry In PDF document text
    • http://files.budgetmodelrailways.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437074/987afc164675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cosmexmelbourne.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483491/7508292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sdsuengineers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407144/figobimusoletep_kepokuxu.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/1/0435/1269/2895/files/qaqc_mqnuql_for_construction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7818/0257/files/chandra_grahan_2018_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5811/9334/files/meguninapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9851/4343/files/ashab_e_kahf_story_in_urdu_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9294/9658/files/loop_antenna_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5104/7329/files/lumamenevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1239/6968/files/19030710525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6638/3768/files/49251882343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0183/9775/files/31506514966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5480/7717/files/vukafuraxufawodaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4107/1016/files/sofabewijelomotasaliwosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9898/6909/files/72198907614.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000d8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A3 6492 bytes
SHA-256: b9c1bd2281f23f09d905494077011cda678d8ff8a20e62f41a46584ce81a564d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D8 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 551de0816c0c8625fdf596f7dd20a9a484f17538f7c7d9809a42a6a8cf47c9ef
font_02_sfnt_off0000fac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC0 15624 bytes
SHA-256: b20bd9bc7cb94dbc7f10b14f1ae2f66198ab18ef281a98fb08899ebd24f263c7