Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d12abc73802e2e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:24:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a83ce24d3d597501870a5e03d10570a9 SHA-1: d7eeb16bd00ffa746576de86f2ac50a89e5614db SHA-256: 8d12abc73802e2e6cf356d8a59d0d606f68262af6040365775b6500c23b38138
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=wii+u+mii+qr+code'. The document body also contains text related to 'Wii u mii qr code' and instructs the user to scan a QR code, aligning with a QR code lure for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=wii+u+mii+qr+code In PDF document text
    • http://files.eguastella.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871690/4656610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitepineconstructioncompanyllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681233/suvutewager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.earthenhairandbody.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874489/zikat_sodet_donujozitinano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medgaming.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681976/2764249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.topspotfruitmart.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/doleweguzojujud_siraxovetadil.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/1/0440/4117/5190/files/64572718503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/nitefetosogajelowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6260/7518/files/38810527027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4856/6933/files/bulla_dragon_ball.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/80641747059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9224/5666/files/to_love-_ru_darkness_season_2_uncensored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7259/2801/files/xefugamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6084/7004/files/volume_booster_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2929/1427/files/morukixosorojosizavasaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53940500656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8482/5247/files/95453551594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/duwaxufezemurogagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45366335679.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_off00006870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6870 4804 bytes
SHA-256: d69e784680220c186ca9d325b8ddeb55bf959fa42426e537f892f148d39c242d
font_01_sfnt_off000078b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78B9 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 507f7c6a4174011c09fa499f870ef154ec206459066c63f08b31c082e75193d3