Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd8e08fc3cf31d64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54f72cf35e63e6ce1dff53138fc6434b SHA-1: dfa57a88fbae9cfff2c8e02d2f26682715256a8c SHA-256: cd8e08fc3cf31d647207f6ae2c56a92aa33dfd4ecd22ec28de8099314039998a
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 a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=dengue%20pdf%20in%20bengali', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms this, indicating the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' further supports this by identifying a mass of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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/wb?keyword=dengue%20pdf%20in%20bengali In PDF document text
    • http://files.shsoh.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406744/mujupirawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gilphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712214/lesuw_tinepapoga_xesemalibi_wovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malekum.premierbreederwebsites.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163763/a79b2913fb.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/1/0429/7415/0809/files/20899507359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7340/7893/files/botod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84005007378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5144/files/60079668967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2194/3463/files/92479367245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7596/8928/files/govemojivudefugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4424/1562/files/cuales_son_los_generos_periodisticos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/business_analytics_case_studies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/python_greek_letters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5907/6502/files/zowabukoxamudova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6620/4066/files/60805827426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8787/8549/files/arraylist_implementation_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9612/1252/files/alleluia_randall_thompson.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E3 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 3c223b53971c297b6aac252d27d64094edfe51af7ea036c271f9c246fb08a3b5
font_01_sfnt_off00007839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7839 12204 bytes
SHA-256: cef67afd7f2e1956025c94b30988445356cfb2351f6469370b07727392a8b7f5
font_02_sfnt_off00009d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D15 9992 bytes
SHA-256: 6094c7aee2c3fba73ef7a1e14f976fc48683c08e18ad4dec8c90a93623736079