Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba8e5ecf308cd6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 14:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6095173c1f90cbfdf1b310f803040d81 SHA-1: 1385fa6619665ff41cde92d728e62afa1b95c145 SHA-256: 8ba8e5ecf308cd6dbf23eb2e1c4c71d6c8fe41a66dd4c038daf8cfe6395a490e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and numerous extracted URLs confirm this is a link farm, with the primary redirector being https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=printable+lined+writing+paper+college+ruled. This suggests the PDF's purpose is to lure users to a compromised or malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis to the redirection behavior.

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=printable+lined+writing+paper+college+ruled In PDF document text
    • http://files.remodelcostspreadsheet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408245/jumupuvolona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pesepi.bittersweetapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/wejunixolakobuw-nokolenaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.utahenglishcreamgoldenretrievers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874639/jojazigenopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dozunajek.kira-marie-mccullough.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453558/kilabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avtarindiatours.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814225/49c2d.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/1/0431/7868/8674/files/lopogulolerisokojesorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7041/4999/files/busybox_non_root_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1945/9998/files/old_time_radio_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1961/6935/files/feden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1028/3931/files/54227605269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6656/files/meredifefemujuvuxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7278/1478/files/guzamebiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0184/5659/files/empty_html_page.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8794/6133/files/zakirupixenewudene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1477/3147/files/56472906907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2577/6288/files/sufogitoxonusadedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6213/1878/files/36700151785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4475/6901/files/34618809757.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_off00007094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7094 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 26b2b8f7ce29e683537f8afbab336bcb038a47cf63071edbe39940a72bebe2b4
font_01_sfnt_off000082a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82A7 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4f5e281d26eb4b2ea60790a8498869cda5f7efba651c28ebae3ea624726192