Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a8ae4acdb05a0cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a6e3cfe22ed3d11b1ea72974bfb69d1 SHA-1: d29571925413f29f284d83c2871a161d2943b058 SHA-256: 8a8ae4acdb05a0cdc7dcf20be2c0ef99b3488eb0c53389eaada8c3bb1f7467b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a calculus formula PDF. The file also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many of which are to benign Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=all+formulas+of+calculus+class+12+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theshrubberyllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406269/197277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elainejagielski.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814071/sewagizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nextgenerationcordblood.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437930/kogutozubovimurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.megan-livingston.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739288/lumaro_geseru_videnubetuz.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/1/0429/1664/2975/files/68021509620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7708/4070/files/exercise_and_cardiovascular_health.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0049/5260/files/kuzemuberixotagakalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4238/4545/files/pathophysiology_of_hearing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6628/6490/files/xulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kupenase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2373/5720/files/bodepajovirizadikesefama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1313/4757/files/98821047064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7427/2924/files/wii64_channel_forwarder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/lazixazuxobelebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5048/4390/files/rational_choice_theory_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/nunojiponalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/les_affaires_criminelles_les_plus_clbres.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9381 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 0dbfee3cd551172511fec88626a348014983791ee594b3e16c62aa3848a0229b
font_01_sfnt_off0000a60e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA60E 16532 bytes
SHA-256: f3a95b24cb0996f176829d3b866f3a419ad5a14f27f1708bc33f3aa3aaff2573
font_02_sfnt_off0000d991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD991 16340 bytes
SHA-256: bc775481b3234384b148fecb09583cee6edbe2a3f99fb4a17f3c618959311435