Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d030f4d530ac1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:40:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6dc5c34dc69e5b1089ae3630600e29c0 SHA-1: c056ba22e68afe4fa0254c1e6c3189cd815b3d17 SHA-256: 8d030f4d530ac1ef45cd6dd498cf4b6597734a8d8de1d43d195ebb4fa5682278
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kabhi+khushi+kabhie+gham+download+mp4', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=kabhi+khushi+kabhie+gham+download+mp4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.earlychildhoodeducationassembly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739895/3188962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stlukessimeon.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454024/laxabolinuga_vuxibula.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/1/0431/5840/5275/files/biped_robot_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4193/7818/files/25483145452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2493/0200/files/200_profitable_business_ideas_in_kenya_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0270/7616/files/69864935234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/1991/0558/files/queen_size_bed_sheet_in_meters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6441/7695/files/apprendre_l_allemand_rapidement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32177526878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2981/5705/files/39273302027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2879/0946/files/17604948274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4395/0490/files/bsf_constable_tradesman_admit_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0199/3622/files/finuvativepojinevagojoj.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_off000052b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52B6 5632 bytes
SHA-256: e8e60d96ff85a58d7085841d84c648192b7cc1c9f135469aa3c8293fc4ce3775
font_01_sfnt_off000065ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65CA 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc5e379b4f862827b017f33d6ae9c70238f9368bbe738fb0463c620ab1b23c3
font_02_sfnt_off00008834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8834 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 1df41416ece054d3cca32f135e48dc95f4d9c8a2bff4ba4edba1d14e21aabef6