Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8524b88d300e23a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e39ea50b4e353dc79e6ca95d6bb51c51 SHA-1: e8df8132d981df5f77804a18f5d2ae2124c51384 SHA-256: 8524b88d300e23a3c01dfbed108fdfd1c200050428238060b22e17738fc94cda
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=ferrioxalate%20actinometry%20pdf' is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to benign Shopify PDFs, suggests an attempt to mask the malicious redirector within a larger, seemingly legitimate link farm.

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/wb?keyword=ferrioxalate%20actinometry%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fincast.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607158/napiwewatidoren_lonotafegigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganonukud.stmarybythesea.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/8116933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.philanthropy1.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383837/lifixov.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/1/0431/2681/6932/files/type_casting_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6782/4533/files/88527700082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5558/files/96067091899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5312/8612/files/71689473074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2481/3977/files/minecraft_item_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6304/9376/files/anatomy_of_earthworm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7596/8928/files/nofumavokofaziveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9465/3595/files/consecuencias_de_la_mala_alimentacion_en_el_embarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7680/3990/files/35681048365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9150/1990/files/zuzimirupukibozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4659/1903/files/wefodigen.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC17 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 6e37f9c34623c50823cfb1735fb0d93464c5909bd61020d78866e2959468233b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDEE 10860 bytes
SHA-256: c606fe5323550781482f4e82acafff590d0fbdba9ce9f3f0fcba23d570aea02e

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