Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8a23f42b70077d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 21:32:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b0fc9a6d5c910314be8ad955d392459 SHA-1: edc983046e101b20f00b378e83d547e30bd20e10 SHA-256: e8a23f42b70077d53bf99d8a0344df84a380bb02ce4351bc880618782a1fc2b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=controls+and+variables+part+1+worksheet', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is a worksheet, likely a lure to encourage clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the attack relies solely on social engineering via embedded links.

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/pify?keyword=controls+and+variables+part+1+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.benkari.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739715/gatamela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.powderkegfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776728/9b3c3d1b74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidagom.stocktonargo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/bawodule_lixoluzup_jedarebigosepim_raronunivuxobap.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/1/0438/1304/4386/files/cardiorespiratory_physiotherapy_adults_and_paediatrics_5th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0579/5752/files/just_already_yet_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3581/1231/files/lavenufuwidumipilixunuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4754/files/mugemuwudarekagomadelire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1644/4315/files/96596889235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8304/files/47133250027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6149/1352/files/joborimotexerejavuxapegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6293/files/aadhaar_card_documents.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/6419/0105/files/anjaana_anjaani_movie_480p_bolly4u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1818/1016/files/clara_dos_anjos_lima_barreto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/77386761735.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FB8 5360 bytes
SHA-256: d617e54ec5e362727745e4aa7b780bdd2ef1eb768ef52ca6cf1b37f83fc6b381
font_01_sfnt_off0000a1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1FC 10960 bytes
SHA-256: d49333cc3cc2302ccc7ea5f84912b951ee2b9bafe2391b74d0f9b5e82ff7695a

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