Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08a211f41cb32c48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4e06947450f143deffbc1db00ccb728c SHA-1: 3c912047b470019536297f10f3f4160437e60819 SHA-256: 08a211f41cb32c482c0bc3891c23f64a48103b8c15618fa40ffb05334cc86497
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, directing users to a malicious redirector. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=understanding+and+using+english+grammar+book+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document's structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or scam attempt, likely to download further malware or redirect to a credential harvesting page.

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=understanding+and+using+english+grammar+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gloucestershiregatewaytrust.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398125/dubesamamivudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tagst.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380604/12f3ca0c47fc0d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saskstealth.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740320/karelenawe_jegedem_kexusurabirupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajojokuw.jacktaylorphillips.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/pajilobusuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikejdonovan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/tukifotozijudawip.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/1/0430/6993/1673/files/58569299532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8992/9116/files/88764562800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6663/0050/files/40365378338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13170590630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1770/7425/files/wuniwuzurugubelono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/39913789796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53295895336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/raloxejimikaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/darkest_hour_cheats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/96145260952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9671/6952/files/97319456365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4163/5997/files/zuduwumisaduxazixuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1712/3486/files/best_ebook_reader_ipad.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9D 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf0e7456e54f892fb90220db2828b64f4fbf12253e7e71827d4e359860ea84a
font_01_sfnt_off0000809d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x809D 2576 bytes
SHA-256: 5b39e9209f2f5823ace8c91dcdd9d22e48f67d4c3a8bd5da9fa9055417ac3ba4
font_02_sfnt_off00008a5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A5B 9988 bytes
SHA-256: e20b9f73747d6fe8a99214307164a348f37e1efd9203b6e1b64deafe19fc7718
font_03_sfnt_off0000ac7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC7E 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 735e795b4d16529a49140ac7f40a22111760e3f1c48d6bea317f9a0d5f86c05c