Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8615d2e05984479b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:12:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9e9136d39f30662121b3c86ccf86ba8e SHA-1: d362771eb8f0485ce3f5ff4cefb6f896edd0c5da SHA-256: 8615d2e05984479bcac8bb20e6e6895d2f4574bbc7544bb045caa122b81c7b45
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=chuy%25E1%25BB%2583n+pdf+sang+h%25C3%25ACnh+%25E1%25BA%25A3nh', which is also identified as a malicious redirector by heuristics. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=chuy%25E1%25BB%2583n+pdf+sang+h%25C3%25ACnh+%25E1%25BA%25A3nh In PDF document text
    • http://files.mzstrong.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/deff2b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.casapinessuperherorun.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/9d813e1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naleokakoo.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/lewisan-simukikon-dubugiwovub-busizelipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thisdesperatecity.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384171/kajemasogoter.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/1/0434/4253/6598/files/phonetic_symbols_sounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4120/files/kovutipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9579/3571/files/tuvunopenowimiduloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9252/4702/files/kizapufoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/reragijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6604/1244/files/fogigenuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9303/files/1615690567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/bagavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7565/6094/files/54205828498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1447/1330/files/52690751154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8250/files/70806479273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0161/8327/files/inverter_welding_machine_circuit.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: thisdesperatecity.com 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AD5 5712 bytes
SHA-256: ea5e18839ec7305e78e64342a0651e2e8cbefdb9c13fda51e7163d1f5374fd4c
font_01_sfnt_off00005d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D84 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 554d1d93fe34e3a1105e39e3991f8d1013ce845d157b98a5258d2eed941f28f0