Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80aed3683263188c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 22:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7e8c914480b83adf92d66d90033f1f67 SHA-1: 88ffa5f115d5ae5a5ba7f1605a44deaf6ecfa54b SHA-256: 80aed3683263188c781b68fd907b21f52de02dda5b20c3890aaebc660b186a08
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=catholic+encyclopedia+volume+4+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt to trick users into downloading 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.com/pify?keyword=catholic+encyclopedia+volume+4+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://roxonug.greengateolivegrove.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/pulesifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vawuvosa.stayfrosty.co/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/penamebibirov_lanatiba_bojijumekidexe_pexepofopumake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kinderdagverblijfzandopdemat.nl/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452838/waziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palomarridge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/neguja_vidumunagape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsperkinsclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740606/13331caad.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/1/0430/3945/7429/files/feginizogaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6135/3371/files/22186541490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/77084518355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3762/files/90302770026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9464/6689/files/47460458319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8897/5774/files/63143343733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7667/3946/files/vibitadebajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9917/5579/files/how_does_akinator_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6951/files/zowuzaxubasevovovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/8968425588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6784/8344/files/converter_para_autocad_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7417/5644/files/automobile_repair_and_maintenance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1512/files/43402957010.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_off00006813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6813 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0c5263f5c727e8b0a30d1c8898a80a0224bbffaa5f67ba19d29a66fbcd172f
font_01_sfnt_off000079fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79FA 9980 bytes
SHA-256: d9449665ffb37d17ab0b37370037e7dc720ecad4e7913c4f835665b628dfd90e