Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d9aadb93497633f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 06:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8f2aa8b012ee13f3fc0255d2c3f6958e SHA-1: 6fe4380999711f80f05b5eea1e4ed5528d1c22db SHA-256: 8d9aadb93497633f4361b26d9a41a29907da2dc41ffcab095cdab5519ade8dac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=can+you+catch+the+titan+in+prodigy'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several benign-looking shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector indicates a likely attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish the user.

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=can+you+catch+the+titan+in+prodigy In PDF document text
    • http://files.lbtbi.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163932/wejegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindamitchellbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873830/5298039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isleypercussion.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/lizezopevalo.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/1/0432/7617/3472/files/99976361676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/11037813774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3189/4944/files/paboridafosavofadaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4882/7040/files/77818024064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4836/9309/files/semezuvivexekataro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/lufobifanifijudogexupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3768/files/zoxopopafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2122/8442/files/navusekapisexilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0575/2997/files/xafufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3749/files/72938646351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0954/6136/files/luxofumati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8220/3801/files/tuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3164/2780/files/kefuvewuradozepegoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6499/9588/files/windows_movie_maker_2012_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7361/7568/files/sirof.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_off00007e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E14 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 15e55fc45477bdb1d2635f351dee1280e9b3ddec1db1bc6be9d649cb5a7224f5
font_01_sfnt_off00008f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F8C 10120 bytes
SHA-256: bd25026c015a92bc97fab8d149886610f53df9e968403f763a961cdde30006c3