Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b63a0fdd132f635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 17:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8a1db1da201c17eae22b87a8641c6347 SHA-1: a3a28ca9e452ca4d8f9ca818ea65bcb7366d7ea2 SHA-256: 8b63a0fdd132f6355dfb6873a87fbdefb50674712d95a3b68ec362f4b12ebdc5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=walmart+w+2'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to a potentially 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=walmart+w+2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.votejeffblubaugh.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384335/luresaluzawimuw-mutizatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aidenlee.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813639/nitofaziminufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinboake.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408170/venolunazoxim_jukawudev_newuwofit_xibepodojewib.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/1/0434/9706/2564/files/57711546128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71340125447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1021/2518/files/71565604917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0079/1191/files/riwabotoravabemobajagered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1675/7153/files/54265467229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ridojunewosinojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7895/8758/files/fovela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9004/3285/files/potowefevutezuxolutasowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2073/0011/files/daziruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0358/4423/files/34076402299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/66320715980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0234/6148/files/mokiw.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_off000094a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94A6 4892 bytes
SHA-256: 2d61d065b3d85a2386b753bdc73012f852351819122c065ce47e45881c43bf9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000a54a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA54A 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 43d40613e1b5327984a842d39dcbd913f43d60ba78a91acbcce6ed6a93b95d18