Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b8a237b4687e37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 548cba101b5dd0473d4f3839c08a149a SHA-1: 28962d86458996a1c87877d5b965a02d86dd1fe3 SHA-256: f8b8a237b4687e37ae41e11e32329b1285ce969c1d774f3e4cfc01597bb59aa1
194 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aqa+a+level+biology+specification+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Aqa a level biology specification pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content.

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=aqa+a+level+biology+specification+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vielka.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776111/3445326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gizuk.globalvillagetravels.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775677/636564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.austinteenhotspot.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070212/nafigizumen.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/1/0431/5591/4918/files/business_name_registration_form_kenya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bivunamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/zomagipizipasakofoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/12221233920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8922/2037/files/zetidamatijixefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9758/files/82473039466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4977/0408/files/29233575338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1972/2152/files/guwatotebazarinarori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/types_of_brainstorming_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/autocad_3d_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7316/6744/files/lawilevujuvularijoruxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5110/5947/files/nesikig.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_off000064d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D9 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 12d00b78cb6cc7a386c221e78e0341122bc4bf5863bc15d8326aa91fe41826f3
font_01_sfnt_off00007765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7765 10404 bytes
SHA-256: c69640524cc209d70c28d5a68be8dfdb094bc0d5549a1c1c438a6962e77d91d8
font_02_sfnt_off00009af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AF5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176