Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f8f40e42a9903aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f74de5025651c33011214ceb84536ba0 SHA-1: e40e6fa9cf301e4d39862dba82512fa3e2ec0133 SHA-256: 5f8f40e42a9903aa24ec9ac09fc87493ec46a569b2894f31b8d12c5c7bc4f308
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs as found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=concerning+hobbits+piano+sheet+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.whitelakeumc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383493/9169316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christinabhoward.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712661/710351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southsurreygardenclub.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398019/tefowipuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.australgecko.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380558/5742686.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/1/0434/2287/5797/files/acidocetose_diabetique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3912/files/kusabogosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9618/files/16986009233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7532/1499/files/metozemudilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1184/9892/files/jadual_kadar_caruman_kwsp_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1536/5020/files/32271950104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5337/4874/files/emotional_intelligence_self_assessment_questionnaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7525/4937/files/themes_in_negritude_poetry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0066/8065/files/74915001389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1222/6202/files/vegorede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/xusarukinolelamidigekesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1223/files/vumujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6837/2632/files/dojuxulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7618/8315/files/houses_of_the_holy_lyrics.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_off00004ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AC8 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 1275520ccd21679416ff457ac0bd5989db7c94d4410c744d19428e889c1e3b38
font_01_sfnt_off00005d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8C 9388 bytes
SHA-256: 0802c455118b21536781636ce764e0eee569d85ca81da407a7aee4bb6469e83c
font_02_sfnt_off00007dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DC5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3