Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88aa4ec23e856fbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0770de4251b01ed449c9792cd45be6a0 SHA-1: ceec7539d73fedf870710d364e11b253d2ad8637 SHA-256: 88aa4ec23e856fbb417c79ab6ad0248a045a0987febc68f1ee1b31b34933f832
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) disguised as free downloadable content. This technique is commonly used to distribute malware or conduct phishing campaigns. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm heuristic confirms the suspicious nature of the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=assamese+new+bihu+song+video In PDF document text
    • http://files.queensdanceproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383727/a0ace02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movingmemorycompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738673/259850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrshilario.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/4548108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapefa.utahstudentnurse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/vezoziwofu-nobizobenofusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harleyerdman.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163578/kiwadikaxelobaselel.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/1/0438/0455/7472/files/physics_class_11_ncert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8181/0599/files/anastasia_movie_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/duliwoledemovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9208/9759/files/61573307572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sazofafusogowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9784/8996/files/50880005189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5507/1900/files/madeline_hunter_lesson_plan_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1017/0786/files/anagnrisis_definicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5944/files/11493548224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7706/6140/files/pevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3343/6055/files/konibaroxozepi.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000540d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x540D 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 0eac1552a6a0cc8d6d43e14f5c157d052ff2bf21460314f67a2c213e0a454e63
font_01_sfnt_off000064f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64F4 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 9c43e7852c45d01896efaf53c64676378747923d5203225899e90d9da9deb3b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000766b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x766B 2144 bytes
SHA-256: ff6f50938146b34ab7d9aa472a0f0df7788fcca6f78c97d2a490c66771d8d684
font_03_sfnt_off0000802a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802A 10268 bytes
SHA-256: e6a7018e963c3e0dfa52be2f5f9c7b28a064d28d8adf166fea7a550a97e347c4
font_04_sfnt_off0000a312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA312 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f