Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aebb6f7a2031ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85a858d9c2100ebb0275ad19933219a3 SHA-1: e0a90dc45f6f76aa5d0584aa8b80e393bda191d9 SHA-256: 8aebb6f7a2031ebf58c82e6e8f33c854ab7d8c49578b22f8c09ceac83e881978
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=rise+of+the+guardians+book+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking the link. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of the malicious content.

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=rise+of+the+guardians+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.awakeningstaryoga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695883/wisadoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jpjchristiantshirtsandgifts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776413/tiwupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.toolshardwarejamaica.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680932/47eae84e2255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopmutana.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740462/2726787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.desantosmensgrooming.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/38ee15b0f5f02db.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/1/0435/4605/0714/files/47119028451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5257/1555/files/vilawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5376/9126/files/68858492275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5249/files/23994668777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1806/6842/files/63851314112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4233/3084/files/mekujuzewiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1645/4305/files/90275174118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6751/4788/files/75584527156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20931566490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/jubinazofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7157/8024/files/ziwodetobegebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8664/2338/files/5322859978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0999/0043/files/shoulder_impingement_syndrome_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2623/6063/files/2993825036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8357/files/gegiso.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_off0000b64b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB64B 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 0711eb0afb69855479a12da5cfeb219756cc62bb849fcc33ed7cf8611af0bc3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EE 10868 bytes
SHA-256: b7bc52e4c737abdfbe0282d38ea9f33accdd1024a231797f7a42e38e69210ef2