Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8655a0720c7640fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5069bc12ea981308f8c01f2c72265c65 SHA-1: d7ed2248d18a33fa2e76893c328c7e0ddcbf0c40 SHA-256: 8655a0720c7640fe59fa00c0cc2eeac571d2843f39b8257f49afb22e24b59c5f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and potentially malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The document body, though partially obfuscated, includes the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=happy+pongal+images+in+tamil', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or content-luring attack designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=happy+pongal+images+in+tamil In PDF document text
    • http://soramif.stcatherineschurchlittlehampton.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383645/1196933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lazyacrescampground.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/7284154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ottawaherefords.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775704/nukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lahabrahighschoolchoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437978/fizevemevol.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/1/0437/8565/0325/files/bioethics_in_canada_weijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6837/files/les_miserables_i_dreamed_a_dream_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5240/0789/files/liroduxikivebekeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0639/9388/files/advantage_kills_destiny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2502/1603/files/basketball_game_rules_and_regulations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0968/3110/files/28182777079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1647/8110/files/35723152734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/58091154710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3305/9737/files/english_dictionary_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8246/files/8599377573.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_off00005968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5968 4892 bytes
SHA-256: 6cce6c330aeb4fb23643bd818836a00f1cf031e78dbdd9550e38f0e1a409afc7
font_01_sfnt_off000069f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F7 9352 bytes
SHA-256: 618fdcec7fbadd7f7507b088ca2ada2a8fd43664c889b0baa485783a04ecb8ff
font_02_sfnt_off000089f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89F2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3