Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8116e47dc7592f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 08:44:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb3b7e5052aeff1597164191e3b90190 SHA-1: 83e57baa39290cde7a087ffee4535d630c55d6c6 SHA-256: 2a8116e47dc7592ff48f626d1d49b2d47154f5842e4f9a979a56609d2bb236c8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=demonstrative+worksheet+grade+5'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'demonstrative worksheet grade 5'. This indicates the PDF is likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=demonstrative+worksheet+grade+5 In PDF document text
    • http://files.mistressmaryhell.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738593/titodubovorisenoxofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.strawberrymooncounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397934/zemigasiletopusobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.urpeaceofmind.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776449/bumanepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.khalidshadid.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164520/9774432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojumabe.shenangofire.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380081/4386768.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/1/0433/5439/0687/files/14770537274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1698/5503/files/kejifofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5765/9547/files/xudusireduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9931/5610/files/scout_medical_examination_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2041/9226/files/xezagexugadotifibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5680/8607/files/79300948879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0636/9703/files/59279772086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8663/files/xunumuxaxetojalasilaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3383/files/juwuretulilogozate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9261/5073/files/us_history_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8761/8463/files/cisco_basic_networking_concepts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4160/2198/files/ds3_door_shield.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3699/0885/files/jefadanawifozozifema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4646/9793/files/divinity_original_sin_2_black_screen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3418/0769/files/verefokasovok.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_off00006692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6692 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 8d8a94f934f95e2056668ee22db078ef6b3c161b9fea11d8abfe6f911d40bdda
font_01_sfnt_off00007899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7899 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 7d1af98e464448c38ac363ad27822fd178114f56bacf7846db8ec56d91459e44
font_02_sfnt_off00009af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AF5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333