Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df3bb51c3d1cbec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 04:04:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63cad1722a27a5c45e419da7355713e4 SHA-1: 47b43ebdcd9c1fc22a67fe52593e6308a992a486 SHA-256: 8df3bb51c3d1cbec5234b7d4494c91d4b4c734dfc2fa1057f2ee91d206217f13
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=adenosine+mechanism+of+action+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content. The combination of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to drive traffic to harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=adenosine+mechanism+of+action+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.slsfnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379740/9295056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nadiamatar.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857199/pelimozuza_gigezodoku_vuzimemotu_navaxoxaviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pittelwilkinson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437599/9010779.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/1/0428/8764/3302/files/puximoxigojigawuxozugogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9318/7989/files/67846517522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4007/2092/files/pefegidefipakerekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7708/4070/files/20245203766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rinubigelezegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3399/files/56380905774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9660/4825/files/28983128779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7400/2837/files/tonejalevuzofilanironozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35031547028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4276/7001/files/37056168531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6689/2186/files/xetovuropixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0832/7829/files/49365316851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3810/3962/files/93899007974.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0DC 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9bf6130d24e6abd3b1dafd4b46156ff2cb20f3463dffc46e09c99441d1b211
font_01_sfnt_off0000c1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1D1 13380 bytes
SHA-256: e7a2e5358a90db969ef1cb818feb8fa6d67522f8afe2e83ba4756b9b08bcb39d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED76 16160 bytes
SHA-256: f80b9f84d6ea16074f67da7a904ab41e14e5a44612b81a97f195d72f9bd2a496