Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89cdaf892d390d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:43:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 89be730208da3b79e3e987d88195f113 SHA-1: d2ec4a11dec98d7780dbeafc2c92758759caaed6 SHA-256: 89cdaf892d390d7af7c7334d1399db4bd8a9752a06afd09336897907c66b881c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO spam or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Blessed assurance hymn pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of many external PDF links, including one to a Shopify domain, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to distribute malware.

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.com/pify?keyword=blessed+assurance+hymn+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.musicwithdunne.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454151/ad870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fopadejer.kevinakhurst.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/73bd5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradleystokejudo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406714/jipulofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.florenceseminars.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/debofozoxa-tulenowoben.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/budexojimomamuzarumedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0225/7823/files/26823574768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9746/4731/files/84547012421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7104/4770/files/backtracking_algorithm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/tutorial_microsoft_excel_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2030/3006/files/kakotefanenixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3917/6357/files/fikufusuxivitigamikobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1624/9767/files/52733192429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1300/3674/files/anorganick_chemie_housecroft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9208/6685/files/because_beatles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0532/9064/files/75694849921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6645/6224/files/vopozotixasikezipivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3255/9267/files/19279632592.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_off000071a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A5 5544 bytes
SHA-256: c51796174c28d4b6e5d10ad4b99c15a45a45b0e061b2ffdb19091c894dc92f2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000845e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x845E 10304 bytes
SHA-256: c59c8b7bda2a92b3638480fb3bf322f543a3a6227964d8361d0c882161cf388f