Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8f3e9067be20cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 425ce2d79d08d0ebac4a7c5accf1ed09 SHA-1: 41d5762d137345190abb40395f4db4cfd9fbd1de SHA-256: b8f3e9067be20cd81faeef8f3f4886734d8999cf6d0fb968b40136f9149a5f7a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to a Shopify domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to 'Appserv 8.6.0'. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports a malicious workflow.

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.com/pify?keyword=appserv+8.+6.+0 In PDF document text
    • http://files.rendonpt.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303068/pojejefizomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.healdsburgartgalleries.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/b43cedd8ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tppc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636762/3788901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tinagutierrezartsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775383/remax-taxopugazaledu-fuluxibejurifuj-lavosiraleset.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/1/0434/0216/6428/files/strength_of_materials_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2243/4972/files/wunibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/longman_writer_9th_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/30936358609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2816/9375/files/52643991303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kenawuvotijogajutimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8613/8792/files/wedding_march_score.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0777/8711/files/18361501058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0369/6536/files/stihl_028_wb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3599/8880/files/22285188549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/daguvutep.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_off000065c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C4 4588 bytes
SHA-256: c14e2e8a57b1a8b7810eb460e2c4b297b76d39c895b1902109d6b25adaa9d972
font_01_sfnt_off00007561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7561 12696 bytes
SHA-256: 87344a300c0ca09e2df84f648c7b756c6951a004025e7eb6701b9f5a2a5cca9f
font_02_sfnt_off00009db1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DB1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e