Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88120998f3e2a885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 19:56:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1bb88bd7cde3414e79bd17664e495ec SHA-1: 1245e263aaea754c0049a187fc3a11a9112c1adc SHA-256: 88120998f3e2a885960417c085bc5e660a65529910cf8cd4a3d73b58f256a792
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a primary redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=adobe%20acrobat%20pdf%20app%20download'. This URL, along with the heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE', indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into installing malicious software or divulging credentials by masquerading as a legitimate download. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=adobe%20acrobat%20pdf%20app%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.dragonfirestore.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739253/826469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.realvalueinvestments.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681201/3949e.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/1/0431/0119/2352/files/anamorphic_illusions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6727/files/81378900658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9164/6880/files/woboganinumakeraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8082/7558/files/35258702862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5864/1561/files/17917472648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/gipumilasaboxirutezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2902/files/62220281402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3812/9823/files/tobomovojaxakatojirujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/volulotof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3943/6449/files/tozenuvuxibinefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2353/8088/files/lojuwofiwasokuxoxupixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0629/files/cbse_answer_sheet_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/68665046960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3894/6981/files/horn_of_the_brown_wolf.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_off00005cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CF7 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 63d557eb129761e2306d4a9f13945bf47714217535fd820856ad1c7a6ed6cbfd
font_01_sfnt_off00006ebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EBF 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 471d3c357e351962a798f2258e517abc59ce23e9546fe8ed7b7363ed0f2a51bd