Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48daba08e265eb6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b605337e0c7a6c86aeeccb7cc9091a51 SHA-1: e1e6acc94c3ae6a7fd639cb2205dafc0105161b9 SHA-256: 48daba08e265eb6fc99fd58fa5cc84abe951f3d6d4ae8a6d5eac6ae7ee243bde
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or unknown domains. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags a URL leading to traff.ru, indicating a redirection to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious URL within it reinforces the attack pattern.

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=fi+dhilal+al+quran+arabic+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://koxeku.mshsupwardbound.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739192/lijepebetoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leannwiggins.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/2125876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.familyforeveranimalfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637896/9177987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tibef.michaelgwilliams.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/mefexisoro_vonomemuj_vufipurikivebi_gakonigisezisu.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/1/0440/3301/5958/files/havering_sixth_form_college_hornchurch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1770/7425/files/91339215436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1322/6139/files/attestation_de_travail_cesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9595/5358/files/fofowukalaluxugakunokogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5089/9368/files/539846509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7974/5192/files/witiwimepazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2730/7416/files/4522472342.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00009423.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9423 18812 bytes
SHA-256: de1468c4e5550b065802e0a5f1b13e45f15dfa575fe409e36c10b933c3d5ff03
font_00_sfnt_off0000602e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602E 4860 bytes
SHA-256: f86a35ce1ddc671665f8aaf76d002932e3b42d4b59f7807154c27bdd5e6936ea
font_01_sfnt_off00007086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7086 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 48ee3f8b0bc7e2cd0f166a97da88b952561c09b1c37ada45b0132bfe6187980a
font_03_sfnt_off0000b2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176

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