Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bda214eda73d2c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 00:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 478f49e3999094db12500fe339d32a33 SHA-1: e9b0cd99c6c682c2e3fcfc47eb069e1c33291134 SHA-256: 8bda214eda73d2c3b1a737b2b91e3c138d7b1a1f266935942a96e2c6025861f9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers the malicious redirect. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt 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.com/pify?keyword=camara+de+comercio+internacional+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vafeda.pumpernickelpictures.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069899/e8d0b21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rozelcruz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438111/c87f8139ad8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vebinip.prospectartworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/9512ea3610e266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northopchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382841/diwasa_pezimonono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bedfordboyshome.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969689/gavikebejexerof_vigamemumu.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/1/0429/8748/7385/files/jonbenet_ramsey_autopsy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6423/7992/files/38480357182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/tivubobejoxizudatefediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3093/6732/files/36601125733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40323832667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8161/9873/files/95940927826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/zikumuduzenirejezalivegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9540/9311/files/getus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9124/5733/files/traceroute_program_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8095/8617/files/sodosegenusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48177964882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4464/2716/files/canon_mg5320_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/fipobovobavuxebemuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92399027362.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_off00007885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7885 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 784bb3107a577945523a4cd9d750c176f84783736089a7f147583776ec27cff1
font_01_sfnt_off00008986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8986 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 630042ab68cac44946ee2b12332068ae0b14d5520824b1de0d066646d0923ff2