Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8982c7bf8091fa6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:59:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1dc5a5256857909c875be426b6d5bd1f SHA-1: 846b0c2864be88649b0629c77a36815bb136b2e5 SHA-256: 8982c7bf8091fa6a3104132603eaf324ead08806d6d2bf001e3d24cc630f03d4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector URL. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anita+moorjani+dying+to+be+me+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document's structure suggests it's designed to exploit users' interest in specific content (e.g., books) to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=anita+moorjani+dying+to+be+me+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thedwnews.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740275/a7b68ac15a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zepreloading.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/4701938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orgorg.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/mibutalu_najes_gifafilubekixu_tejasit.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/1/0440/5932/8662/files/9906299192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3778/4229/files/21058371639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/guzaxolisisezupusodipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3936/7061/files/54162540143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/55781022724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6661/3141/files/72584825371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8918/2376/files/99640803851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3304/files/70372478086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9028/9574/files/92289756516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9978/2309/files/gulupukudafupude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7361/8599/files/36183874021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/sudotebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2761/8209/files/19532899799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6497/5765/files/70401621227.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_off00006094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6094 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 66cb0b98bceca880647d71e94feb766aae9981f4f3c0e1d567c1666ce1212134
font_01_sfnt_off00007321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7321 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 30c937fd5fc2c782d84de959953828a322f07ec24fad72e673b05661e955c71f