Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d8fb67e04762161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 010ef55dfb28a4cfabc970d37ff5d181 SHA-1: b5728fe8fb7c18c43475d12723009abf6dd98f2d SHA-256: 5d8fb67e047621619331e712bf967dd98bd2918898ec2ec220f5dcea8e32edb5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=android+x86+iso+6.+0`. This URL is part of a link farm designed to lure users with fake download lures, such as "Android x86 iso 6.0". The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information.

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=android+x86+iso+6.+0 In PDF document text
    • http://files.shopcustomaddicts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453623/weremelivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redbarnfarmboers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409574/12a3dcfd47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.empressreadings.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636872/64377.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/1/0434/9899/5864/files/43463801296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3095/4655/files/46010879104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5586/6263/files/bloxorz_level_33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2914/2426/files/nebomukinivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7102/8896/files/17315651032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/bikusapemutedimilejunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8488/2844/files/xaxopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8463/4530/files/62559133018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8449/7575/files/op_amp_ic_741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7331/4715/files/34617009886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8378/3575/files/tebakigawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2117/files/34138065601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9719/0556/files/doterra_probiotic.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
🗂 Part of campaign: empressreadings.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000087cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87CF 5156 bytes
SHA-256: b74711224a6796e156a28bb8c88078827e5736cae3252e60fe960b016ddc7651
font_01_sfnt_off0000996a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x996A 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 472f33963938cc9ba9827da34ac7c49652724219150fb9e92632828fd814af3d