Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f89027aa98bd3aa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 23:12:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93f61e104aa9aa862da5e8dbd278ee74 SHA-1: 007f1e2697ce9ceceba3911a47424f305a52f394 SHA-256: f89027aa98bd3aa219d0482fa2723f115e9202fba6146ac5c69ea9f5f3c646c1
194 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.ru/pify?keyword=armstrong+furnace+parts'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on domains like cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=armstrong+furnace+parts In PDF document text
    • http://files.mindthegapllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303163/soxawubanabixel_rewalurow_bupudozuv_sogetewawoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hopkinshometowncelebrations.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682303/3187937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coastalk9c.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681207/kakebu_kugexalelilo_wolitodafadoxok_minokexogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.svacademy.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815183/fc17a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tastefulgatherings.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775747/napup.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/1/0433/8286/6083/files/vogifazisofejosina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4409/1557/files/gukawepunadexixadigapeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9059/9319/files/75788001161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7538/7043/files/negemabetezexelole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/49540977369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5584/8355/files/96800100407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7754/2823/files/xurazolagipamofodofumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1810/files/jazasugaraxodalupidenugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6453/2900/files/niraguxadaguwatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4234/0007/files/96312539280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/57239023420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2053/files/vosiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6123/8168/files/33239626577.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_off0000502b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x502B 5128 bytes
SHA-256: d908187d0b00c6564634e23ce5f7ab87ac93a161ffd4cf355dc05d7ea2a12ff2
font_01_sfnt_off0000617d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x617D 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 6240b297a72928c464dcde69a13d6139d712653773a33e67351c80b4fba0d836
font_02_sfnt_off000084e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84E1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2