Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 089312f3cf122194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e3aa817bcaed2cc85737e209e29c140f SHA-1: 0d49d13d0428aa3f07097ab2797cd42b58252ebd SHA-256: 089312f3cf122194fa1841aed7008022905cad924bc86403331b2b09b3a6fa8d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=predicting+before+reading+worksheet. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'predicting before reading worksheet'. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for phishing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=predicting+before+reading+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://gaten.outdoorsweddingceremoniesbymililaniwoods.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/3308882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.diegelrabbitry.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384599/19b50a2c739.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/1/0435/4995/0111/files/18632423094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6818/files/27777879996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/36502585986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9814/4932/files/55750629260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1906/files/bootstrap_template_admin_page.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3083/0494/files/kepipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6975/8874/files/64974248252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3222/2615/files/xefunobigesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2011/6387/files/coordinate_geometry_straight_line_formula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0030/files/arpegios_para_guitarra_clasica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/45124750998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tiwimuz.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_off00006620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6620 5548 bytes
SHA-256: ef4548c85a183c615cf2b7517a69211dd3778c091b4462590aadf56d261e1390
font_01_sfnt_off00007903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7903 10488 bytes
SHA-256: fb086f3d83f4e2aeb589be0f034de6b35606fd01ac298c71eb0e0f21cddfe129