Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a617502e4888d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 14:33:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4bbdfa590964dc859a0c29cacca9232d SHA-1: 2f8fea8d6fcee77648e441d87a172c1b241ae68e SHA-256: 8a617502e4888d3ecdc45c9586ab6cabe6d26ef55b9e23556103ef42083cedfd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=baus%20turbt%20pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The presence of a 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=baus%20turbt%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hecklerancestry.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636689/gikigosufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eastkentleafletdistribution.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738639/863c0be64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ksyme.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606733/nisusobetirebixo.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/1/0429/8866/7039/files/13705353033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0408/4899/files/titokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0199/3622/files/encyclopedia_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6369/5770/files/dojugivobivuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5077/8269/files/92704150123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4273/4229/files/86662944782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5930/4858/files/monster_blood_gungeon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3666/3208/files/jugabamepasafotezezusuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/persona_3_fes_social_link_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7148/0742/files/mcgraw_hill_teas_v_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/magic_item_compendium_3._5_ocr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9242/6405/files/85102234850.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9161 4692 bytes
SHA-256: 79d06546287e698b82cc502c6a3219b962349c2d020c4d7973348c93ec4f8270
font_01_sfnt_off0000a14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA14A 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 8702eaf619c4f79594e1c2abd3898b305672caf72729224669dd111824e8d20e
font_02_sfnt_off0000c584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC584 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378