Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18f8e70947dc4b69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.6 KB Created: 2020-11-08 13:53:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 4ac4cbccf327b15868d2b08682095a2a SHA-1: e61fda3e075e195744c1b583038b875c84ebf700 SHA-256: 18f8e70947dc4b691a2dc17c207b7274703dfe6b8a8b338a432fe73b461c29d5
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it links to a malicious redirector, specifically designed for SEO-based phishing lures. The embedded URL, 'https://traffine.ru/aws?keyword=tamilmv+unblocked+dk+index+php', is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffine.ru/aws?keyword=tamilmv+unblocked+dk+index+php In PDF document text
    • https://wejogude.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/niwasegini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd7b482b-c782-4d66-98b7-6615a0b67132/nelson_book_of_pediatrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaxokalu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/3174835762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesitupar.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/libros_de_biotecnologia_farmaceutica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zojemadej.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/73587489466.pdfIn PDF document text