Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d1484eb44b6d8d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b1c6ea601e051979c6c1d3c476d4672 SHA-1: 9b913706be37e0bf3e802bb905a3331c600461a6 SHA-256: 8d1484eb44b6d8d6917b93f20b1c19b64a74537190437c6d0d91942ec7239885
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru' with a lure related to a 'voice chat app'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, hosting numerous other PDFs on Shopify domains, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious lures. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to the 'Aloha voice chat app', reinforcing the phishing pretext. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link embedded within the PDF.

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=aloha+voice+chat+app In PDF document text
    • http://pefil.rogue-photography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452821/pabofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anastasiasiberians.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739553/dajuto-xejitonukifute-buxemumaw-guliden.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/1/0428/5107/4204/files/bolararubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8565/1358/files/gofamivafazuramojason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9745/6801/files/30600224737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2197/6220/files/restart_apache_ubuntu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1610/1793/files/64911531408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1247/8360/files/10493699964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7409/files/51396466248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0409/9740/files/concussion_return_to_work_protocol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5767/5431/files/dr._cindy_trimm_prayer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/67695116947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3582/8124/files/oxford_dictionary_english_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3776/9384/files/fcc_element_3_study_guide.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_off00006860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6860 3064 bytes
SHA-256: d01e7d3a4e99b645d6ba9e0529bed8734a3e49056909a36afbc23c6aac238715
font_01_sfnt_off0000732b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x732B 4796 bytes
SHA-256: a3ffe065d1664d6539356464f6ddee4f6e1ebc95f8fd4f8461537a3befb3bf15
font_02_sfnt_off00008376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8376 1996 bytes
SHA-256: 5961e1060f9363c32da0f76125ac288f2eff24347133fcbed0194b84c37f2459
font_03_sfnt_off00008cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CBE 10412 bytes
SHA-256: cbea0b725636acbe854805c90ad0b97a5abea906a3cc269b0ac63864b267577a
font_04_sfnt_off0000b089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB089 20452 bytes
SHA-256: 4ab3a76bf9d3edaf055ecb54765185e9447f6f6516dacd4a4229b85867cf6e5e