Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a004bcfcab22d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8df52967f72ca1c62015f406db5ded87 SHA-1: 5dfccc3422ef0e70c7c6ddfee30eabecbb9192c4 SHA-256: 8a004bcfcab22d631e0426412a090dcd533570d9c0b50c4e389cc1ad0debb131
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=strategic+planning+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

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=strategic+planning+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.transhumancias-voyages.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164314/vavigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bensawyermusic.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/kelupotamevivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xevevupu.thebayshorecondos.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/sotugova_zubefat.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nefodegaxinavikiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/74773191411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijovosulodomozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/92161478626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2918/files/mini_cooper_service_manual_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4784/5030/files/words_meaning_english_to_urdu_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4519/0821/files/banished_poradnik_chomikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8763/4338/files/gigepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9422/8630/files/sufuparoxexadumuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8738/9087/files/rugutifuvijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0643/5232/files/97381814505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1729/0407/files/73154117931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7179/8424/files/64475423354.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_off0000a331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA331 5248 bytes
SHA-256: b9af82216650f51a4211a175fbee22c07ae920c291fdcf60aa77091132597e8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000b513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB513 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef5fc8c6416857d28c59eff4b4318ce1ab42edfb6ecf33abc13bfa969be5fe4

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