Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aeb00e3d2ec611d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:28:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c26daa5df4a5e719d93358adbce4ff8 SHA-1: bd6aa5d8c8d5ae3d98e32a24c37bb9c1b7cbd987 SHA-256: 8aeb00e3d2ec611dbd72c69386ff43a6c0aba98e76b2fa693a244ba73bf70cdd
194 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=modal+confirm+dialog+on+form+submit+bootstrap'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/xiaomi_eu_mido.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and appears to be a lure for a confirmation dialog. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of execution behavior.

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=modal+confirm+dialog+on+form+submit+bootstrap In PDF document text
    • http://files.fodraszbutor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775292/bixijunoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.invictahealthcare.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437680/548925f69b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joannblock.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/midubolalevige_mojigi_domuweganof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richbrownies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483830/424c10c8ec51a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tibetsupportgroupyork.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776099/5700490.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/1/0428/5900/4070/files/xiaomi_eu_mido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1016/9759/files/36673204417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6590/9160/files/27934251812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5114/7676/files/83189184085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5240/7704/files/gopiratirefogovalavefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0221/5074/files/72885236132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7680/3990/files/93894130698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6900/2143/files/usmle_step_1_secrets_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4702/4805/files/apt-_get_uninstall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/learn_arabic_language_in_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72593533024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/68019672642.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_off00006d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D92 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 8acf083597c8b3381dc077b32da68e2e6b837aeb7450c55cd3434b31b315979c
font_01_sfnt_off0000809a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x809A 15844 bytes
SHA-256: c25289606d072900578f04b2ddad59eecea326a431acc9227947cc723b39be07