Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b88a24a3505b3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93ec942d193f05cc3c6ac2a1e697106e SHA-1: 4f8a92ead0b0af07b19095b8d1458e6752da2008 SHA-256: 08b88a24a3505b3a420339a1dbf20b6376b5007b1904b167756b861af1871b35
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=autocad+commands+symbols+pdf', is identified as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially harmful content by disguising it as a useful document.

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.com/pify?keyword=autocad+commands+symbols+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dregerracing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606951/xexasuxuvonisagexeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7827/9317/files/weather_report_satellite_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8946/1410/files/deruvolefosazurogitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2370/3969/files/guromuzamudajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2129/3974/files/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_worksheets_7th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8856/7706/files/46703788358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9889/8592/files/xikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5667/2418/files/pov_inspection_check_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5513/7447/files/99164282546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7227/5103/files/gosefubuzamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3347/8566/files/vupexusuxexivokewosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7304/3622/files/gomizefodevutijekezekewes.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB260 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 7250bd4559dbc7e47d2ea6476f04ec1fd4c74d89ad07666ec8f7ea02cf23e4d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3CE 10360 bytes
SHA-256: e56f3fa2f461ae9b43a69c927958d739d9828a65dbd32e4a37cba8afff54a849
font_02_sfnt_off0000e74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230