Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d4d8e23656ba12d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 51ed55df26fbfad603aabb85e1f73691 SHA-1: 9f54107df256276bb4307f54222b76751384b964 SHA-256: 8d4d8e23656ba12df6678deb9f135dfe3a78b37bbea0d5e2d5de1655101f850f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=auditing+and+assurance+services+a+systematic+approach+9th+edition+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be SEO-optimized PDF links. The primary malicious URL is the ttraff.ru redirector, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload.

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=auditing+and+assurance+services+a+systematic+approach+9th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.amazingepc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710759/xenijejeloralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thegirlsofig.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739892/zazijarowemovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.megslim.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813961/zotopagoxiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pregnancybirthbeyond.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303270/2b2fb4e8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naplesbesthairsalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/acca36b19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://://testbanklive.com/download/auditing-and-assurance-services-a-systemic-approach-9th-edition-messier-test-bank/In 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/1/0431/1485/6610/files/66811168838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4839/3112/files/alimente_alcaline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9336/0801/files/becoming_a_supple_leopard_2nd_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8089/2057/files/fomogipipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sazofafusogowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3869/3797/files/virisagokolalibekosefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2774/files/47853435030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4498/6280/files/social_psychology_studies.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/1/0431/2052/5469/files/learn_spanish_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3339/3309/files/kurawirugewelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2854/4668/files/76277823543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3594/9218/files/20209568314.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_off0000aca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACA4 5844 bytes
SHA-256: 2a36eb13be70ddebb444fc1852a2e6450e4ef26bdf60779117578106153780e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000c078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC078 13120 bytes
SHA-256: 9af2a5caf8321f7324286c3f6259b5dca58348e449612bdedaafdcb4c220389a