Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8180d9869cf1881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:19:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5955b59414bf84d627062d0e4f3c53ef SHA-1: f4ac95562c3ebc9221afe3138544388649950c5e SHA-256: d8180d9869cf1881fdfd8b4d0b917db308f6e5945a990a641c2675407e17b2d0
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The primary URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bts+pneumonia+guidelines+2018', is identified as malicious and likely serves to redirect the user to a further, potentially more dangerous, destination. The document body also contains numerous links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or a method to obscure the true malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript further supports the malicious nature of the document, potentially used for exploitation or further payload delivery.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=bts+pneumonia+guidelines+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://zonixel.worldvision.com.sg/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857334/7774995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brightstonefarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775902/judebajesuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davejohnsoninteriors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739084/seguwubafij_xajuzilezezopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tadusub.annikascaketutorials.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/0b0ee487a7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meteamusic.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/guvera_tigadob_tozuvanuj_lofibu.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/1/0432/8092/4837/files/19025816575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3325/5323/files/76879672921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5329/files/konekomegavodufirukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2665/3079/files/ruvatigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2474/3591/files/93064960134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2136/8472/files/what_is_macintosh_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7394/4217/files/braveheart_theme_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/dutetisoxusukusozume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sigejorivuzogekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/85741589163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7685/9544/files/mr_coffee_coffee_grinder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13139855908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1856/7335/files/final_acceptance_certificate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7629/6605/files/bestiario_hp_lovecraft.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_off00006ccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CCC 5752 bytes
SHA-256: d600db1009784879944e8e66861fd865f9d4f5679c938b49a56d14174bb5ed75
font_01_sfnt_off0000804c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x804C 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4a9a734617a6b8071c53ae64bab472fc2818d0a4206bd394f1e60135acee83