Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e400ca497da276e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:37:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dcbc1883cf8d9f3cb14a7436175b06f4 SHA-1: 4af061953d8c80282728c040c927d62ad9ee7100 SHA-256: 8e400ca497da276ea1a8cc7d5cbd6611b6c992a69570073d67c5459bb21ab457
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as malicious. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=upsc+model+answer+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.louthbeekeeping.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/49f83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annalisalosangeles.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070591/wijemepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xewat.iironaekki.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/3745994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ahavabotanicals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740148/luzevafad.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/1/0433/1290/6405/files/fevotadazakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/57391961349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/98239219204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4192/2982/files/debujavodefopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9826/8065/files/dorosotiduzuzizonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8305/4757/files/nipumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9155/8551/files/83263684538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0440/3613/files/27753638571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1110/5183/files/92820542066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/bigasuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2244/files/maytag_mhw5500fw_consumer_reports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2244/9820/files/22831571664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5593/9733/files/9408937175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53295895336.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_off00005963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5963 5220 bytes
SHA-256: b16a51e899ed75677daa982841056d883fc75bdb0ddd5353cc18b054a462916a
font_01_sfnt_off00006af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF7 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 64123bbeef076243cea21962efe36f996a92ad4321dd5903702f47ef93481fef
font_02_sfnt_off00008daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DAF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34