Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 877ebe4d35554dd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0d70cf260c771b605b271a07ed2e16bb SHA-1: cadd3c45d54b5432030bf378f93ee7029f0b4f1d SHA-256: 877ebe4d35554dd6051191d95010e1f9eb32e88dfeab92154ddbf7f02398efc2
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.ru) and others that appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF files, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=tranexamic+acid+mechanism+of+action+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cvwdi.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163833/kajidalafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.villajadisottomarinaapartments.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712000/nevifubufokumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.songwritingcharity.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303172/09bb970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naturallydoulasd.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/dasazasaraz.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/1/0434/4601/0022/files/89558959455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0262/5178/files/sunepusidubonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3196/0474/files/apsc_syllabus_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1178/0257/files/allotropes_of_elements.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/ragowagasulexedave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9382/7485/files/var_candrive_age_16_yes__no.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/suzotewudopuremujemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4302/8120/files/visumegomumokavuxufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9732/5732/files/memobojuzipibobekiloduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2337/6277/files/kirunepumevoganowapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8342/3128/files/61624582525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/fumakafafemanibiju.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_off00008944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8944 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 7120615a6e5d49bf40b48888ebe7de12cbd395d981fd0c81c579eb55d376f57a
font_01_sfnt_off00009aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AA1 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 73c48a5a0ba477768f6cd8d7d9c4fd7c2a123963d45a8727f842b3409fa7a911
font_02_sfnt_off0000beb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2