Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e20df543ee8848e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:40:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f596200d1486539e4c8832a227b293d6 SHA-1: e017f2d697c39f36ced1e714cefe55e096822002 SHA-256: 8e20df543ee8848e12d666229a5f1475d56113bdd8e5f8162b0e636446dbb5e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.ru', indicating a malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting the primary goal is to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

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=mastery+by+george+leonard+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.samantharamsay.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070173/kefenisefamero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sydneyaudioclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856492/236d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annotalegal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/rozikinopizafol.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/1/0432/4697/7179/files/72306444446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83260340608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9549/0721/files/nupibomowasinosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5903401900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/lagakofarawomojituluvete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8049/8848/files/tabewoguworelatulufeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7395/4204/files/sexirimivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5747/0874/files/65551280854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4899/8811/files/fujitsu_halcyon_inverter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0576/9888/files/72633937351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3590/files/sidepopidekemolawovemole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0313/1542/files/fovuwufipar.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EA 5456 bytes
SHA-256: da6db5c35ca58c2acd2144fb47262b52ccdfef302dcc6d3227ad591890819765
font_01_sfnt_off00007795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7795 9664 bytes
SHA-256: e9fcccb9c6d19023b09abfc3a3efbb4aace6668d9854169d3cb3f01e1e3bd61d

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