Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d4ad0c6f8657838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9c1523c09d64cdac23495452c32e8cd3 SHA-1: 33bfb2913df7c503b1c8e0dd41a3b45ebb0ec563 SHA-256: 8d4ad0c6f865783886bfd5fd98fd9c82eefcb99b7f35c180da9d2e010bd544c1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, traff.cc. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially 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.cc/pify?keyword=libros+sobre+autolesion+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.newdawnguatemala.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712154/da9fb4b49f470a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powewuxo.advancedmedphysics.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/6021056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bemedialiterate.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775792/wozaxoti-xuronepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerig.ozonatrace.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/vebigakob_votuwubevid_xatiluwoviwif_namidoravaseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8918/2376/files/adding_and_subtracting_fractions_word_problems_4th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/badogutadosivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6072/1829/files/43677043959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1312/7844/files/19761908775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0219/1269/files/limav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5319/5165/files/all_i_do_is_win_clean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6698/2561/files/tuziperepudotoluburizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8186/7176/files/77547950177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8603/5621/files/arterial_blood_gas_interpretation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0025/files/7073054847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6065/files/16434809609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/denikiv.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF4 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 34736a4846bc2a07b97114dfcfb33ccf160f6ad9d7ad25b81b0589c0d33c6c61
font_01_sfnt_off00008e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E58 6424 bytes
SHA-256: 3a4b5dc7eb1ed2440188d9790fc3a8989dd203435c946376c8737f94935219b7
font_02_sfnt_off00009f41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F41 11448 bytes
SHA-256: b717ce0d98cb110d4e4abaead8ae287fb645f48757adc01e2cfb7660ccfd0571