Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a957c744e8cab48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:37:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8f9b730cfbce0d7bc9e34b78a08e8186 SHA-1: c2086b27d4dce13b61abaf8dd030cb1683fda29f SHA-256: 8a957c744e8cab4815b1c99268b47c5cb40f65148b56298d07f2ef3041006d2b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=open+pdf+file+in+browser+c%2523'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with numerous external links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains. The document body also contains the malicious redirector URL and a list of other PDF URLs, suggesting a lure to download or view further content, likely malicious. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports a malicious workflow.

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=open+pdf+file+in+browser+c%2523 In PDF document text
    • http://files.frederickjbrittain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776327/1feec7adc09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sportfishingdalsland.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696274/fd45c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelubo.thelightingsummit.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454024/3369954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emnote.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/39dbc138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elisemoran.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452997/4065651.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/1/0431/3127/3365/files/23098549828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8921/6163/files/wakeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8851/1130/files/55779072010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4863/9391/files/ryobi_31cc_trimmer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4681/3344/files/50507146723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9200/9379/files/74743041475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6076/files/xonaminatowuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7469/8902/files/jefutiviwuxamelilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6337/8081/files/biviluxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5179/5107/files/adobe_cs6_master_collection_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7786/8443/files/86835329978.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_off000088d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88D4 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 1beca3628743e28366db5ca0ea1c0afb6354ad78de454e3c0f32daf75a0b8ccf
font_01_sfnt_off00009aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AA3 10332 bytes
SHA-256: bd93a359272232614e4a2bff4276de2b18bacd2a087a81985315b654c13b5835