Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d3b2f989887f5ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 772cfc110ac4d6c038eff8c4c682fa63 SHA-1: ad25cf799be74209a5f6a48e2f05749223de6627 SHA-256: 8d3b2f989887f5cab49df5e4f1ac43365fe506a8c2b36b77398e3a33dccb5291
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=urbanismo+inca+pdf', suggests a redirection to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates an attempt to either boost search engine rankings or distribute malicious payloads through a link farm strategy.

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=urbanismo+inca+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.supportersofoperasingers.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636689/najazanemege_gibamopagov_notopeponevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birazalaz.wardlawspoultryfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/voforunitamaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasuwosi.tancarrphoto.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/2229037.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51031200676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4354/3447/files/pdf_burdah_dan_artinya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4227/5479/files/sefeneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9781/files/set_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4522/2557/files/purple_place_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2775/1321/files/16926553258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1694/4796/files/33210259062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/sixagutunonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3362/files/scentsy_catalog_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/niwotomazegavufazosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2779/1009/files/56113786822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8951/files/70541728054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1805/1996/files/autoexec_cfg_cs_go.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_off000080f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F5 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 922e96dfa0d276eb00d240633de5668dcc45b20c5860e1c46eead3f7de225a1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000933c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x933C 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 45452d6c538dce2fe9f9bfd518e52db2270b9c4d3e0864098fd4d1a96ba00554