Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b5e853d67ba6888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 10:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 446625795b92ba9152eb5263385126d0 SHA-1: 520709f69c334b7e40aa71767171bf87ad66feaf SHA-256: 8b5e853d67ba68883d291a281521489f9de2fdcabfaec7c99da82e944a919ff8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=uppsc%20previous%20year%20question%20papers%20in%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL. This suggests a social engineering attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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/wb?keyword=uppsc%20previous%20year%20question%20papers%20in%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://buzera.petercosimoleather.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776177/xivavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theborzoishop.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164355/mamuriwegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hornsbyptsa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379434/bomujakurufilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.strosebasketball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776054/2702146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gatewaylegacyprep.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303230/pinorane.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/1/0431/3815/4653/files/18377735757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61286624564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6769/4490/files/14631976073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/20062699921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/vewesasusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7747/4206/files/95644842288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3941/6732/files/24554540291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8057/files/minoduwevitudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0401/files/kidde_smoke_and_carbon_monoxide_alarm_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1941/files/gulavimofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1914/0253/files/togekowineduguxidegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3142/files/stevens_320_12_gauge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44411244229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8471/7979/files/vapadubujene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6974/4028/files/nitifasirowe.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_off000068b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B3 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 6477859dbb39791de4cf1edb2d66a357d902565bfc166c6b0f1a3712a8394a7b
font_01_sfnt_off00007b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B29 10292 bytes
SHA-256: e2e617a42dc1b5fab5a3d1dc72b8f839df548b646bed721c1f13f24680031157