Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b3044b90bf1ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

161.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 02:23:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e54d571ee14e9f47b88c9f256f118dc SHA-1: 2fb112120755d16013ef47be3acc7078c5cb93b3 SHA-256: f8b3044b90bf1ae3cead352cbe26a933ec98639234ca3da207aea1f1a9f46fc8
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.ru', a known malicious redirector. The document's content appears to be a lure for 'DDO leveling guide', likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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=ddo+leveling+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.featherfallssoap.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/c4171b62e8ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heathandhaveringurc.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637271/mulebojalogox-zewupuj-popemema-libigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westport.votersguide.info/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382018/zasiwewebab.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/1/0427/4877/2519/files/xamalavafemegefolupoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6799/7344/files/benakurixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wizivudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/interview_questions_for_assistant_principal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0741/8273/files/11841696243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7629/files/kekevitegadomowogixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0056/files/wugotaxewamolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1305/4357/files/15722702938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/engineering_signals_and_systems_ulaby_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6902/files/rezotajezazamamox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/4622688052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/77011107478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/64418529662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3103/5032/files/38423524497.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_off000242e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x242E7 4568 bytes
SHA-256: e251662c93f31c4ddbcbe8bc16468390f3fa610b271e8d64f55aff2f6987d742
font_01_sfnt_off00025297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25297 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 2ca0185d9d783d9ddc6f5d2e7f13f8083ab2479976ffdd95a34f06ceb7fea240