Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f48523ddc4b8dfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

410.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9d4c1780aec60f57a9389d5d7ea3fe3 SHA-1: c0399392013db26f3286174a6e3771f09dcfef16 SHA-256: 2f48523ddc4b8dfbcfc34ce2c9d9d8ccacf9684521c97310a53a1590c3d56d9d
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=asciidoc+pdf+footer', identified by a critical heuristic. The document also impersonates a cloud document sharing service and uses an urgency lure, suggesting a phishing attempt. The presence of wkhtmltopdf in the authoring application and the obfuscated document body content indicate a crafted malicious document designed to trick users into visiting the malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

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.
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=asciidoc+pdf+footer In PDF document text
    • http://files.yarahtraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775129/woxibamoru_medojofez_fajolomabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theironlions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695325/73fbf408cfc5d72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalenuni.teaching-entrepreneurship.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/kegexenive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plasticactionuk.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871568/nulufonol.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/1/0431/8406/2626/files/lspdfr_callouts_0._4._2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6451/6005/files/sarokunufigagesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/penom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4171/2286/files/10715719009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8171/2287/files/nidalee_pro_builds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5561128363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9506/8567/files/essential_idioms_in_english_robert_dixson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2767/7852/files/kobafetenujukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/vocabulary_definition_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89573664631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72438278193.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_off0005f03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F03A 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 0f589e5f15633df266ee4661c604c4754297dc82b7093fa550f2a1964f635560
font_01_sfnt_off000600ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x600EA 2268 bytes
SHA-256: 72a3fe65f0a21df30f240897224061cfa351088b80a4eb601fb5defb198ec993
font_02_sfnt_off00060afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AFC 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 97fc4abaeb751d734af5a9fef784bcd6d17d714beb55393a2bd872fdcf9db8fc
font_03_sfnt_off000642d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x642D7 16456 bytes
SHA-256: b7aeb12f837738e9d19fe99d097401d7ba97d97b3af32665d43398abeb3b3de4