Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc8d5456e5c79dca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08278f5e70c1d9fd474a477e96960803 SHA-1: 0017e4988b0d832737248684c97f00de87024fd7 SHA-256: fc8d5456e5c79dca0b8b505dd515388807220e5ebe030e85343f53f3cf1ab3ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is designed to appear as a search result for a textbook, but it contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=mcgraw+hill+physical+science+textbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.david-jones-society.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814642/dixagululekivex_tekixomixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.millcreekscattledogs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969370/fakezavegafiropelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mvchoir.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874073/8189692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritaso.project907.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/merapo_likawinadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.venturecreationcafe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453251/3603287.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/1/0427/7485/5846/files/bepikibezufinases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2754/5763/files/how_to_become_a_better_programmer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3811/3955/files/29910014611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9714/4990/files/23450251366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2998/5430/files/nelajofafaxowufejobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0569/7440/files/wapixulifilolebom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0839/2353/files/aeon_trinity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/22798470834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9274/5117/files/wewatogexoviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8277/files/bubidaborikoxowazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72163988246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1511/6696/files/74120943298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dejotoxirebogoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/98172563432.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_off00007a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A1D 5888 bytes
SHA-256: c50a25a6ac68b3d71b09de9285c21df5b0227ef6b4c46996f33beafc3dc713d1
font_01_sfnt_off00008e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E48 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 5edc1de757ede448b77c6b3adf331b97fb871253116fdb67cc125075c206fc15