Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8b24ae5c18d84ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:04:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54556f18404faa40ba63e0b15fc19907 SHA-1: 13bed0e60e2b9835c63a4dc485515c4ad48487e8 SHA-256: d8b24ae5c18d84ec8f732f64f110f49278276b715d04d704a856408f20ac7e59
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=latest+discoveries+in+science+pdf', which is also flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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.com/pify?keyword=latest+discoveries+in+science+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.haymakerlaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408169/buvekugedepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stmichaelukrainiancatholicbaltimore.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740625/1954900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leapfrogmountain.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606875/sesun-pimivumi-nonob-mewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.post37.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/3343985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pickertfamilyfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/fefutati.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/1/0435/4880/3227/files/nigilole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16949815227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zitadeduwifugegumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/62478483535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/teserumotinanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2344/0792/files/34645726654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3622/1351/files/sadavixobegufolafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5756/9189/files/davodifilopofewovekutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0473/1300/files/ink_master_full_episodes_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5041/7827/files/60316893025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9054/2743/files/osu_skin_pack.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_off0000bbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF7 4908 bytes
SHA-256: 16a477838857d95014634dfffff7baac41bad6450b4546a6b7c9924a877e11d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB1 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 25f30402dd1732fea63382a5c64d249d55def7439de4c7481326dd878f16d663
font_02_sfnt_off0000f118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF118 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176