Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8391d5b22697c61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b3f119ff584ee55a20c9f930c31383b SHA-1: ae7c6106a057e806fbb9e20d5660d0e00d648a73 SHA-256: b8391d5b22697c612c75ce2d48be0bf3ea2d369e0617fa42c593d2960672e1ef
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign content on Shopify, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, using a seemingly relevant topic like the 'US national electrical code pdf' to entice clicks. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=us%20national%20electrical%20code%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ladandp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453665/xebirilidoduruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.midwestfarmandpet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398221/21a0b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesloecook.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606331/wedafumuturep.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/1/0432/7522/3206/files/discord_webhook_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5054/7870/files/real_estate_assignment_agreement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/5538503211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3128/1314/files/55248526311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8034/3967/files/sepsis_pathophysiology_and_clinical_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/linoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1721/4874/files/ubuntu_14._04_sources._list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7310/9152/files/32658624277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3621/6229/files/how_do_i_get_github_io.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3174/0071/files/quicksort_c_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/xigepogulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5502/files/68921681609.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_off000059ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59ED 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 845a7dce5346c6c0e1d9b5fa38b072fb61269397688747f6d1ca0647a03a42f2
font_01_sfnt_off00006b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7C 9676 bytes
SHA-256: bf54ff6995a0a71bf4115c96602f888631d3964b4d790d63727882204dbb5bef

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