Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f4cc48145af56d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-07-30 11:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67dc19a3df55eb8ebbe25b7759b1a12a SHA-1: fd9060f4dcfa59fee7450c5700b793b7ecca68c6 SHA-256: 8f4cc48145af56d19e121cda6093e2618f0a7ccd34c0060b123205bead3844d4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, designed to direct users to external websites. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aspergillus+spp+pdf', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a programmatic generation of the malicious 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=aspergillus+spp+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dianebattistello.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739789/0bf1fe13f1cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nevillegreen.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164129/seduwofafonut_worajegabuvodi_fusotupadexupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.portlandharborwatertours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776590/vowosaf_wixikafuj_firurizamiju_bipojigodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scrippsnorthstar.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874026/webus_kokitasumamu_topumoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lilydermis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775465/rewuki.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/1/0433/7002/1014/files/2150835234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/bazumadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2873/2314/files/kobepozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0845/7877/files/somovenusipepuvugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2886/4409/files/wovejitawiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/lebekomigosuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6200/1821/files/rakobuvapufutezivido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4615/0039/files/24082227377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/46577701663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1378/3199/files/34475352847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0940/1251/files/38631672168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2703/6322/files/judarekazixijajewu.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_off00009b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B09 4572 bytes
SHA-256: 690df10aafff03ca2bd080fcfaf92d6c63cdffe95101643a4a642d3a9e2c3dce
font_01_sfnt_off0000aaa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAA1 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 48fcf5ce45ea2340cc2bf58ab9fe7830e6f2c637b3f4748305182e0c5b9d2866