Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd368a8aa9def7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2020-07-23 07:37:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8445fd60f584fa55c75d76bd6723faf8 SHA-1: 731e048b1b3a468d2a98b7c97fb281e5e3b7370d SHA-256: 8bd368a8aa9def7c9ded108d8fbdf1b8c6ac0e14b60ebceeaf2e5d0c9b5d0502
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=conduction+convection+and+radiation+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic was triggered, suggesting a broader campaign to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily truncated and unreadable.

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=conduction+convection+and+radiation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ioliteraryjournal.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969480/3765d30e211f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.misfitangelsrescue.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969686/3319307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cielogiftbaskets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384432/xebugudutije_xoxojufowit_tojopeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edmondpiano.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739142/928e9c2f0c44bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artbymadisonbradley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453100/8203922.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/1/0437/8545/3728/files/17556378910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8388/8808/files/16341444031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lojuxefututa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9303/3111/files/rokukorigaxodamituzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litowelixi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/55893942013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retolipe116851667.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/52678767380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufolako.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dawolegerubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0394/4853/files/87216290018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8140/9436/files/40876443440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4538/8442/files/luguboguluzeximoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8328/4136/files/mavunebaviwokavamijiwonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9977/5381/files/9178160975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9059/8305/files/zeliwofonubisavisujodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5799/5160/files/47524264549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5586/5242/files/44054276357.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEE 4904 bytes
SHA-256: af6ede0c8972caa0c09f653267c5267facb39ed34cdbc07832e77f1885c9840e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB1 11636 bytes
SHA-256: f5443b7fdd5da4b5bd2bc41d7c7bd6fc4e0084a24d1af7be01eceec3dea8f364
font_02_sfnt_off000124ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BA 16060 bytes
SHA-256: ae97ebdbf5cb6679ee3ae7f6f8963da9ec2437ada1f672a33085bc8cbe806833