Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a810288bce44234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d2a74a2fc9a0d3ab53a4188f50340611 SHA-1: ca3768aa1cea3caf7eacf4621ad5d4c7e9a9cb75 SHA-256: 8a810288bce442345907880af4e4b5047857917bbaf923081b68ecdd1ba2b01b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=wondershare+pdf+editor+3.+9.+11.+9'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger SEO poisoning effort to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely used to mask the malicious activity.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=wondershare+pdf+editor+3.+9.+11.+9 In PDF document text
    • http://files.twobitranchphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397973/nupiradofarivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackmtnbengals.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681836/9404954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lilianholm.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740515/c4adf7fe267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eiotown.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/pomezubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barrygjohnsonsr.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/dce28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/7302/4679/files/application_letter_for_the_post_of_security.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1975/4907/files/32546087768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4288/2215/files/39933098342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2832/files/88746914133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0023/3110/files/zidevivovezapijakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2970/7422/files/66046537075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8176/files/dejizaxabutigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5128/4642/files/how_to_make_a_sea_lantern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1043/1896/files/angina_disease.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1977/9741/files/11495061470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6113/3990/files/juxusarixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8116/1121/files/japanese_opposite_words_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4401/1168/files/40610396422.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000603e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x603E 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee9057f5541b3affccf979082157cbe8094d40a208c8d639f1190d60d1502f4
font_01_sfnt_off00007247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7247 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 906ea598bcdb56fa9385d7dbca5516c92a31928e73d92b2dbcb50f89b0900687
font_02_sfnt_off000095ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95EC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34