Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bf6d19a05b662d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8ac798c841bddaf84bd1ab9be4d35a0f SHA-1: 751e74c5217ab71e667ed4a0b9c87825adbb8e53 SHA-256: 8bf6d19a05b662d5f679e9727ed8197e8e19ca5b5093632cb3fd83955e636ba4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bsc+botany+books+pdf', which is likely intended to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs, reinforcing the social engineering aspect of this attack.

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=bsc+botany+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fremontfd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455475/gusixolibufikon-zidovavuwasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.getwirelessnz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775606/zarijisonob-kovalefobopez-rolozevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwed.vvrengineering.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/4a3ed4132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theadaptedbook.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969699/2709380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8891/2290/files/rizafubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2278/6466/files/ribisakefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3724/6118/files/23957848227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5002/files/lopedisisepugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/8476445784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2572/6625/files/98948256673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2745/5400/files/goxudupupedosafaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6383/6834/files/8610870601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89709194360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1820/6887/files/arcadia_deck_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/david_deangelo_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1809/0653/files/bovazabififap.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7734 5376 bytes
SHA-256: f574c992abc08cfedffaa1d50b17aa0f9afd16c8b704fa3b66783a40dcf41e15
font_01_sfnt_off0000898f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x898F 3204 bytes
SHA-256: 35c0a746fcdf55e64f2ba55209f6a139fa5d4ea47dce36c63c78d1e6d66b29b6
font_02_sfnt_off00009680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9680 2576 bytes
SHA-256: 7c39ce28624f4542f75b1ffc8145173145833d4531dc284b7a223e4ff974262f
font_03_sfnt_off0000a176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA176 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 8fcf441067aeeb7ffce57449b37db60c79d766bdf4e1d3d5e7bc0152be05ae13
font_04_sfnt_off0000c562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC562 16260 bytes
SHA-256: bcccb725c9682f8e52dc21f4dbed28cfeb791f33e6a2205b1cf2355c7010a67b