Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8338997ecfe6c9e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:29:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08f8472f98acc50a46aa43fec3194d0b SHA-1: b96ee01c7a03ff414208f6040878b67a28a67c4a SHA-256: 8338997ecfe6c9e936d22e17a8bb397f9b6f64378f1050a3aea51e54db2fa076
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate downloads, but one of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=intelligence%20structure%20test%20pdf%20free%20download', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely using a spearphishing attachment as the initial access vector. 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/wb?keyword=intelligence%20structure%20test%20pdf%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelmariephotography.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438069/844036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alpsed.online/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/4288840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.militzasiberians.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/aefdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.waiheelimu.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607174/nomuvawezilamaranu.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/1/0429/2853/7753/files/83797831564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9350/5688/files/64127020616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9869/4049/files/bobcat_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/ganuvavupebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6832/5029/files/1874317939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9612/8153/files/suzonasadaveveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/91199815766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5107/3174/files/luvifatetiruwugowana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5153/2963/files/zivitudimagipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/55847968238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1195/6126/files/jenokidusirawosugepedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9484/1246/files/50276475942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bodadajigewodozisidezufe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CF 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 37d5d9d663d4a2122e1984a88a44456f1975c7b3dc7a7538204121526871162c
font_01_sfnt_off0000762b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762B 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 089b9d0c7113d618e86123b2cf184b106e9e2d34b7e99752ac4c4101111c47b1
font_02_sfnt_off000099bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99BD 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 8c772610a8dd344f75c492c86de39e53278ca49f6778f20fd9a3e415d8f2216b