Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fd51a107076d045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 18:41:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0f70d10b5edd701813e37ad5d4c8a42b SHA-1: f5e7dc14ff618a578bb9410a25cbce47d0921f44 SHA-256: 8fd51a107076d045a84eba68e7c712728a1d5d3979b7796764a7a275627a80fc
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure for a 'Payment acknowledgement letter' and embeds a mass of external links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=payment+acknowledgement+letter+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document's structure and the presence of numerous links suggest a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect users to harmful sites.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=payment+acknowledgement+letter+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.showboathouston.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452838/milevumekegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bonnieobrientattoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/5e8a9c490e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stepsforsarcomaevent.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303175/2a04d68f9b4d55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emorymichael.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775286/05bea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silentorchestrapoetry.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164114/motel.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/1/0438/4302/7106/files/1989_chevy_s10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0263/4148/files/ffxiv_machinist_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3912/files/50805708850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8392/2585/files/starting_out_with_java_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6365/4040/files/agile_methodology_tutorialspoint.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0911/3253/files/9784593969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2290/7554/files/28999256078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/biruzuzamukusivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57189589950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4958/1724/files/sazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8443/9971/files/62012324028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8844/5591/files/50229410838.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_off00007394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7394 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off00007d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8F 5556 bytes
SHA-256: ed1dcde965ccd1399e00904da5224d903eb9fe5b7e33155cb49acfbcc4542966
font_02_sfnt_off00009086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9086 9840 bytes
SHA-256: fed44adf0fb1ad63f3825c99b0a311e4d29749d4025d0e4c8a7d77cffbff8592