Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8af3a449dd9c5c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:41:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 413c5573f18ab880d1f4c2c43787ffee SHA-1: e92432958f5e0305dffb43694e345c269240b92b SHA-256: f8af3a449dd9c5c2d57db6a1008df306e00387f2e24ae0661af229a235365865
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dichotomous+key+worksheet%2523+2'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a deceptive document title to a malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=dichotomous+key+worksheet%2523+2 In PDF document text
    • http://feduva.amhuff.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969916/tezalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.800steps.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813966/9495548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joxuz.sarahbardeen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813055/noxakofadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caperecovery.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739704/pusako.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/1/0434/6649/0006/files/34892137971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4388/9058/files/lemukavapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/peregomosurexezobosezob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/kofuxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/1356741019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/95322861295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8896/9882/files/74595387441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/vajiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/domagaparomizisuletexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6767/8618/files/brochure_design_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6987/5111/files/15617863212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1536/2984/files/70449928575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9175/4149/files/letter_writing_worksheets_for_grade_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/58863311498.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_off0000dfe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE2 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DC 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 37ff9bc4a3c16575cbb65b844f95b5b3c5cdb741c0e640e51ad3787e28a50320
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB05 9964 bytes
SHA-256: c6c17bd87b7dc9f0d96586595e300939c9385b0bec0230d86e16cc7c423ed6e9