Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d48a2d3c7f71e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

198.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0e22c01709e64eb0efc562071ce1831 SHA-1: 8b4dc63c08222c28fadf2720c672eed362f83194 SHA-256: 8d48a2d3c7f71e4354f5ae9124b86adb480ad137c2abd1614dd5cbce11740450
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as an ebook title. The document body also contains urgency language, reinforcing the lure. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=master+tung+acupuncture+pdf+ebook In PDF document text
    • http://files.women-club.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409333/326aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wowpartyrentals.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871740/3925202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chamisachocolate.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606954/zawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipew.katieshaw.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/8801613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pucciniamerica.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070336/fugemetusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5976/3617/files/20998870738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0163/4213/files/8288358542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13879903487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3218/9860/files/normal_probability_distribution_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/pudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/dekuletewavokesakufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8611/1137/files/vosewowokelunowunijivifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0608/files/14910945701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7726/1729/files/la_peste_albert_camus_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/13363038926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/60383468977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/sunubefedifite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/1409701542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/rokozemem.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002c674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2C674 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 1e2521e40880e730b25b8b7ae0d0bab554a366b50863925ccf6be02498f3f674
font_01_sfnt_off0002d89c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D89C 11004 bytes
SHA-256: d99f49bd2accd53f6f6ca4e31d66c4254a73488ffc70113a77993b67860c79e8
font_02_sfnt_off0002fddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2FDDD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378