Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aeced4e18500ddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:41:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 77f20250622c0b0dc1c916321c31d69c SHA-1: fca8700d6aa2a2fcccc5420184cffb0a617946d4 SHA-256: 8aeced4e18500ddcefe8daa4aa38c08b3c7faf9c81a30c05575be574464a85e6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=we+live+forever+book+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking it. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com. The primary malicious link is likely intended to redirect users to a harmful site.

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=we+live+forever+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.travismulhauser.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406433/geteweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friendsofcherryorchardpark.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303219/6006201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibuysfv.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969176/timezo-waweduserelegu-bakivu-rerakadulovube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sagolusa.chipsautumnfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452883/wuxuke-sebule-dugewaniguzoduz.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/1/0433/3446/7752/files/widegixifubufovasedezelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/how_to_read_a_person_like_a_book_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/90033192511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/bodobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3459/7784/files/xobazakulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/46789756157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8665/2316/files/20390521240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/taduzili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3042/9346/files/windows_vista_background.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5096/4904/files/vesiturak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/23565064221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/damukukaluzilutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7818/0257/files/3568908644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4545/3985/files/nezupadutafego.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_off00008425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8425 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 7b897c96955db4f7193b95a150183f8bca98346b4feac201e16592cecfe09984
font_01_sfnt_off00009506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9506 10060 bytes
SHA-256: b1e1be2e59e8f23318b620f28d09fd74bf32144fe88b9e41db39f30a31f96bf6