Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 086ddc63261fba2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 20:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ea8b64f2115601c13e1b49edb1abd86c SHA-1: cf9baa9de3bb98d5d49f31c005448edef4e2b6ed SHA-256: 086ddc63261fba2c832e736f12b3ecc34ea2817f7b24ef9e0e408f9958875f98
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=shell+script+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of many external PDF links indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

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=shell+script+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anzacsofgallipoli.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406751/wegobunuxerif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eastcommltd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437601/2569968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janori.embracingspirit.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606552/fe2fc28fffb86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drivingforcewomensgolfclub.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682441/209350.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/1/0428/9200/1433/files/mugizavuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1961/5904/files/rihanna_ft_future_love_song_mp3_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/stardew_valley_deluxe_coop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1104/7575/files/gititofezugapizoropaguwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/39287210660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3923/4967/files/72584301734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0749/0717/files/modilixuromeromibital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8880/9879/files/chadsvasc_hasbled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/67991666959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2642/9605/files/zigitareradinobuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2117/1879/files/soxuwuzemumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91025233068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6110/9155/files/bank_of_america_holidays_2019.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_off000071d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D2 5660 bytes
SHA-256: d39de39e8abf024b077106de1be1c0abd12a64c8f71a3af1aa2204ed615843a1
font_01_sfnt_off00008500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8500 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 9b83fc5652e23d8b8af13388c37a8487c8839b81fa40ed0f825b4be4781534b9