Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8894588f9e8d0db6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f737b5976f91307e6e807ce7971927d3 SHA-1: 7d9b92ac83f5ca889d79a43023ca9e2ad53f9d05 SHA-256: 8894588f9e8d0db63151296db131a365c1b29f3af5b45eea761457f2b39e8bea
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on domains associated with redirectors and SEO link farms. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ends+and+means+aldous+huxley+pdf, is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is designed to funnel users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery, masquerading as legitimate PDF downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=ends+and+means+aldous+huxley+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tzilvelis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/eda2bfc0d3d9d5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voligom.thetruthresource.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/b74329bba5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myersmindset.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775017/jitelufuxes.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/1/0435/9513/7187/files/cambridge_checkpoint_science_book_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4635/4594/files/rexezisovilewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8837/files/pomelutogirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/kirotosafuvojuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6604/8165/files/18032628532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/www_wimp_com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0570/1284/files/the_shackled_city_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7079/0558/files/borges_l_aleph.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/ligobomugowudasekafafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8766/7103/files/demefokumapotupesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6701/4297/files/2557369536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0414/8382/files/kuluwamuwovasukome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5587/3190/files/63331365826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/818563683.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_off00007a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A6E 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 5c35befa0b1cc49dbd71e113555216fad838110f5f0990e40e85c3fe44bed39e
font_01_sfnt_off00008c70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C70 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 2adbd00123ce51c9684798fcac8e7b0597a1b70afbb2c9a7543bbd00fb47e663