Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae08b25e57719c4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 07:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 784030dd912f758acdb414f6fb3158c0 SHA-1: 62580c27174540737114e52c55a9abd8b9950f00 SHA-256: ae08b25e57719c4aa72fa287a063a797e65d61dbfe7c518808679511aedffa45
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.ru'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com domains, likely for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'old man and the sea pdf file' and the URLs, suggesting a lure. The presence of a 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document might be part of a multi-stage attack where an archive is protected by a password provided elsewhere.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=old+man+and+the+sea+pdf+file In PDF document text
    • http://files.mmarieboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407901/6892966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashfordny.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/bovuwoledarukojosiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.diversenaturalunapologetic.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815916/sajarojilatugobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pvjacksonwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164568/846e9f2af4.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/1/0435/7108/5475/files/gre_argument_pool_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9476/9821/files/59748319354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2286/0966/files/kodemilanigilinuxujexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/gizizowunorusozewevoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9182/0695/files/pavilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/76705757738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5688/2086/files/48598180102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1384/7714/files/pulukufobinifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5053/2001/files/guitar_hero_2soundtrack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7904/9121/files/12420669157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4994/2176/files/2017-_2018_fafsa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7524/7003/files/nginx_lua_redis.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_off00007a0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A0C 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc7a9136cc2f271d1ed97fba2257218a421040f2a6401ea24ebfcd8afead0c5
font_01_sfnt_off00008b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B9E 10220 bytes
SHA-256: a740ed265dc3a6f1dbc475459e9cf8f3658f450a6f1284dbf5b5c4f79d95b81c