Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8ad355a14abf072…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-09-11 01:25:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a767baa526d186351aa721c11b13322 SHA-1: c4580927c1e997e11ba5abcd439b9eb26dc533b1 SHA-256: f8ad355a14abf0722565e6886843c775fc4009f2cce59a944cda30ebb13496a7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'ttraff.me'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to external PDFs, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and references to 'avery template 8160 specs', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious link.

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.me/wix?keyword=avery+template+8160+specs In PDF document text
    • http://files.weststormontwoodlandgroup.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/2a976b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gulfbreezehighschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874250/f69f373dd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xugupebo.johndollar.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379069/9c63bc.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/1/0456/8471/9775/files/fire_accident_report_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3453/3275/files/excel_2020_basic_formulas_and_functions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5575/files/sap_analysis_for_office_2._6_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/fogedakiniwaboxufapinomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7634/6266/files/dowry_prohibition_act_1961_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7266/0390/files/pensum_ingenieria_industrial_uasd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c20278505c14891a2e7a81577fb5f91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_9e146114a3694d0885879d1393d500ce.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_off000050ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50AD 5772 bytes
SHA-256: 775a144e56fb2735b20f537b51efb0ee18a8c3c1d47342a89eb95cad589608f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000644e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644E 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 0787d3b9f8efff8bf0849204da07da7c5ff97fe63fea95eadf3c515b6661d174

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