Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed7d38ff5508dfe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-07-14 12:09:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c4b787a3897a2acf4ac29d58da067177 SHA-1: 93365ddd4bb3cf330d36ceca97f4afb0947f5634 SHA-256: ed7d38ff5508dfe4ad634ecf30bded65e6ccd2b877a1985f7c4b3340307677fd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=defying%20gravity%20play%20pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of the malicious link is the primary indicator of compromise. The file was generated using wkhtmltopdf, which is sometimes used to create malicious PDFs.

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=defying%20gravity%20play%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.arkgrandlodge.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814969/pirewutimubixamazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jameskallembach.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969548/bigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulcafeboldstreet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775554/jafonesuna-zumoneko-gikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://pamowuvesez.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/49318388549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvigiwutojo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/49742597765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nemejaranola.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/mutirujupozoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://difimedo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/89541573321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dumutifojut.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tavunepuxevoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vajepevugu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/davebewatorefadejaworuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimetaduwun.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/46175843063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wizovepex.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/busisekelatubimuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napipivo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/topoxobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/88406012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kamunikizesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1648/7065/files/fejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6668/7642/files/lijumevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4103/0293/files/52413544941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8255/5297/files/vakibawitosavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/wobemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/gefagamupoxixotigoj.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_off0000819c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x819C 4872 bytes
SHA-256: f41736f5b82c7e9e895c2f238a1db9b94616b89eaf1953e1c021628f2cebfc2d
font_01_sfnt_off00009248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9248 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 108919bd7720f1e2936a3dc82b23f3dd3bced765b3065aedbaf6c5f6268416d8