Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0138bb688de13cab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8400d675bf24211c903da78f38592480 SHA-1: 9d7b1152ba32f2d9bd870086839adca6f4db5cd0 SHA-256: 0138bb688de13cab32d71188c0a45e966c07e1772d98d049bd3e6cc5fa96b9d4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on domains associated with SEO link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=critical+thinking+skills+worksheet+pdf, is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites under the guise of providing a 'critical thinking skills worksheet'. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=critical+thinking+skills+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bluemoonbeautyandskin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681080/basosebixilamakovazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cooperphysics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/tujulapofawil-vurisidozegu-fuwuwedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tiffanyshocklee.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438682/labaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phonerepaircolorado.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775888/kokebewebomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariettaoddfellows.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606395/86772.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/1/0428/2390/9532/files/4463528125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9736/files/315_437_8800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7476/5475/files/84713520616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3704/6437/files/zakewazuxubenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1713/4502/files/gezesifogoxuxoremezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/31786201181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/21404374401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7818/0259/files/ready_player_one_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2734/8121/files/2005_chevy_aveo_repair_manual_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3599/8880/files/57167203252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3631/files/yanmar_diesel_engine_parts_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/faa_337_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/luvisokogezapawenojax.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000859a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x859A 5476 bytes
SHA-256: bff594d7ae41e66beb0d9af0ace2a7d960e39c51785171e2378fb05b9f8ec89a
font_01_sfnt_off00009844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9844 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 08712d15dc3ac1251806854ec1cc0526d9c016b7e12ce53ff3f3b6f17b6fb677