Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0089b09bfc03352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

250.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: feab9dcb840270494a7b98b8d7a17814 SHA-1: 936eb3c39e5f88a17ec8f108bf160e8a4e57ac29 SHA-256: d0089b09bfc0335214a3ba064394790a9a775a3b3d889f79e4d7f57c05a46897
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=hailstone+sequence+java'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a potentially harmful external site. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact nature of the lure beyond the redirector. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it might be a generated document rather than a traditionally authored one.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=hailstone+sequence+java In PDF document text
    • http://files.kategater.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696465/gexodufasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.modernbarandhome.store/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969706/nikurilidexubavejema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clickcouriers247.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738835/8849626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.milandragicevich.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163878/boridozapofopu_fuselituzubegoj_wasomikuw_wexapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/1/0433/1218/5499/files/vasivinire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/tolefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/22537170944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6482/6773/files/75213007999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6471/2616/files/78679331552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5121/9104/files/kudobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9857/0909/files/17578434922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4386/4224/files/prot_paladin_talents.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5180/3033/files/65359383020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/dekivuwixetolamosowobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tikifulodu.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off000360cc.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x360CC 7896 bytes
SHA-256: b5fe289775850e65a69cc60b626f15f444860935c5a39e68bdceae7a33bdcfb4
font_00_sfnt_off000340c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x340C7 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 42d11a5b12db0a584027d06197ee34ee8c3840e665434101524b8c418837ba5c
font_01_sfnt_off000350ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x350EE 6424 bytes
SHA-256: 05a9d2007ec6d9dd5d9cc52cde88f1f347f4ee36ee2dd568965000e31ffdb9da
font_03_sfnt_off00037878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x37878 20232 bytes
SHA-256: 39f1c781cfa13a125f22bacc68e43682d53bfc32059aae2c810a00e4260b7ab4
font_04_sfnt_off0003b500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3B500 16500 bytes
SHA-256: f3924d3052bdd58ac5b2ff47e0342b06d993b147285ed9505db80abae70f86c4
font_05_sfnt_off0003cb9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3CB9A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f