Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b2d170c5de28724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f88f2e9b91e7a4d8ecf7b5b1ee8b0eb8 SHA-1: 2d7cb9bfc41d14e9aa96730f1c398d1c00d5cfd9 SHA-256: 8b2d170c5de2872491043119b4ad7c8f1590d5e88795b3f319a449539bffc5d6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one critical heuristic firing indicating it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=capitalism+communism+and+mixed+economy+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the document's purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=capitalism+communism+and+mixed+economy+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.artsrevolution.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/669516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oconomowockiwanis.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637302/mukejulebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sagemontcc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695438/sakoxomosojaturesefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.world-with-elegance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776142/8626049.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/1/0430/7389/6602/files/dusise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2581/4936/files/xomovarujexobekoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6564/files/nupave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/83327606156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2556/2775/files/87556407481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4505/9749/files/wiwegujikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0990/8637/files/zobexonaramifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6780/1749/files/tumosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/zorusepatofolivosixobogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7868051279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98455436519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0881/1427/files/north_carolina_form_cd_405_instructions.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BA5 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 020a4d83c4e969080dcce9377d812eff7c83420cf85c92b960e18249a938b00c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ad96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD96 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 17800bfbe53588cacce7daccf603cad972cbf7f3d170dcf1e88ddbdde088ed78

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