Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b6ea7e1c05d458f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:46:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a231f53d2a5a12eca0d31558a7dfec9c SHA-1: 1d62faafe73d7a40bb9641ea33459188c2ed4408 SHA-256: 8b6ea7e1c05d458f564574ab2a5487b059c39d42f4b9288d741509980adac116
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector designed to lure users into downloading content. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=spotlights+on+anesthesia+pdf+free+download, is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content, disguised as a free download. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=spotlights+on+anesthesia+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.silveroceangroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740443/5345398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harmonyhillshappyhorsehaven.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/xuwalawewubepude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikesmale.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/zavero.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/1/0431/9854/6084/files/danelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2450/6266/files/kilalonanopito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3445/files/ledimupobojumuzitiweniviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1957/files/attitudes_to_language_reading.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9947/8434/files/volidafifuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8874/7423/files/windows_8._1_cracks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4511/7342/files/sesutuvudagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7224/1310/files/20490189738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/41978333840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5404/7137/files/fraction_decimal_percent_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3994/7932/files/9063986568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8506/1541/files/30496351218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5830/6965/files/97145899238.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_off0001b62b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B62B 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 772f72b262be22db3d7cd406ce90cdb1a73f87e2c9a361a91be501292026a824
font_01_sfnt_off0001c8e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C8E9 16216 bytes
SHA-256: a141d5a083ad20d7f56fa551e726ccc34604fb126f304db3d10d07f95bf5a570
font_02_sfnt_off0001fbd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FBD1 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 74a35dcac671789a1952909c7064e8f0092ccf84988030a41650584fa1b75142