Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88a718514820725b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 14:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d67df2a74b05d78d3a7a33c083153ed SHA-1: 92477867259fa3de7fb7c05825f257524727f007 SHA-256: 88a718514820725b35114040d746b6c740dfed68f30ec7ba0b0313c574380f19
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is an algebra worksheet, a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple SEO-linked redirectors suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

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=perimeter+and+area+word+problems+algebra+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.outandaboutwithmskala.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453522/kanomapixidisofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevovovu.xboxrepairlakeland.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/xazoravopuzujizagome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twigtravel.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814826/a0bcf6c.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/1/0428/5631/7091/files/18459640610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3260/7894/files/superpages_pr_com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8008/9760/files/xuvuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2732/3301/files/35212813174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8847/8365/files/28847655661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2571/8678/files/forofafivoranakita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/64286063701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4714/7925/files/estimation_and_costing_textbook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1517/2259/files/morfologi_columba_livia_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3918/9142/files/misurizinifibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7304/4647/files/78861496569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6491/2024/files/26860815602.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: xboxrepairlakeland.com 6 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CC 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC6 5672 bytes
SHA-256: 05e498174dec38ed6bff6c5bc61047368fef6c8fc278d02e3dc474386f81d1d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 12752 bytes
SHA-256: d3467d3c546aeb753e37b92ebb4c36ecc8166a801d2f26a987bf05c526843c02