Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 880a89019511fb21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 14:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1a027860c7aaa5b238a16ff811e5f7a SHA-1: 990bfafe74d4d06ebdafd4a6d900b6559cd371fc SHA-256: 880a89019511fb2139c3bf93f747fb11accbb9420b70abf207776a2deeeb2286
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=reckless+love+piano+sheet+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting the intent is to lure users into clicking these links, likely for phishing or to download further malware. 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=reckless+love+piano+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.franklinpres.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453348/tafeda-fonotujafax-gomuxufaga-nilivevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhccfd.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/mogawenoxorudodijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rixalu.ssfitnesstraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775034/devapomiw-garezewuxum-jegukopudada.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/1/0428/9724/4316/files/kapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5993/6421/files/fevado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/ripojazisamudenategulorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2121/3591/files/mumbai_university_admission_2019-_20_online_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9051/8940/files/batabokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6422/0055/files/68615955931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3962/4090/files/jafomegelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5238/1846/files/zisaruwijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/rudadebeminamebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2128/7080/files/baixar24_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9143/files/whatsapp_business_app_for_laptop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1350/5185/files/how_to_disable_code_completion_in_c.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5332 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 2f649715283fc4fbd4fa24c290e0817a1dbbe13df4f730b83f7d1c85e2c95acf
font_01_sfnt_off00006527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6527 9820 bytes
SHA-256: 10ac7c03f6948424f590950aead9940b195c9fd150bf3fc4440910fdf2becb73