Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8968c8d3744b02ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63543f338834c59e03be85a30dbdc195 SHA-1: f377a39c363692ba345e19016e7acf3900598f35 SHA-256: 8968c8d3744b02ea390a993427d2d9c4296e6215fe2aa6041c83ffd6cf7e1a55
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=character+sprite+sheet+maker, which is linked to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting it's the intended lure. The presence of numerous PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic.

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=character+sprite+sheet+maker In PDF document text
    • http://files.anthonymvirgiliomusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738484/lovipuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibet.archvizblender.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/4140338.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/1/0430/4856/6938/files/16569005742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7328/9888/files/addams_family_theme_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7491/2410/files/fallout_3_bemoth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2057/3080/files/padi_advanced_open_water_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7168/4252/files/ladejosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5272/0543/files/82567998285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/91498659200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7427/3948/files/67806836115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1574/9281/files/79704287889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3075/8054/files/how_to_keep_sketch_trial_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1381/5966/files/64143599652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2030/4034/files/fasugogagopedumezigo.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E7F 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 58dd82423eeb2464277644872cfcbe236c716851e05dcdae24acdbe971f48c27
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 26b088d1049bf4a2c4ff30a024afe4cf053acaca45ecd2a6a2501c00ecd65844

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