Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bef9e5f449d8935…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:10:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7dc0ec95ff982f17119ebfe0bec2c3ea SHA-1: 55f95d93731f179707ca4a198859554d9b70e1f2 SHA-256: 8bef9e5f449d893576a7018fc2f28f55fcbe025b99f086ea3ab282d8653f52c3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a document about cash flow management. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the embedded URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=importance+of+cash+flow+management+pdf, leads to known malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=importance+of+cash+flow+management+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.accuratehomeinspections.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740148/5170561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.npiam.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384663/3027265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashlightfoot.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382141/sadogokulikaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quiet-mind.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/maked.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/1/0437/8735/4270/files/37676163401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4244/7253/files/92327402369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dagezaluvonanapukinuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65105912314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8486/3893/files/a_pocket_style_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8706/files/ximalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0855/6182/files/pitodibizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9101/8396/files/wevikodosunaroberoxumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9993/9235/files/85216454343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3555/0118/files/aadhar_card_correction_application_form_download_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9338/5633/files/xoraxanodugatilaf.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_off00006d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5D 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 69a7177b386a1e29a54d1e7a2beee01f8bdb56115ff4da4a2d4dfe3fe2cabf05
font_01_sfnt_off0000804b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x804B 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 6cac4c06ddb85fe08f18cf9780ed712a62b7c60509f253db476b80edb7bda5f7

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