Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d89ca93a11ba6d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-07-26 09:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bc383547beb577bc9566968566ca2cf7 SHA-1: b5a2e4b6c56ef184efcfe015433f1e6035d06448 SHA-256: 8d89ca93a11ba6d3d8d5e610144f0d62b06f7412e619baa36f5eb6eb413e86d7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is used to redirect users to other sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'caricature drawing book pdf'. 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.cc/pify?keyword=caricature+drawing+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.trueelevation.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070765/4807bfe0287e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracechurchoftemeculavalley.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815317/09c4ac26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ccstudioinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/9500163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.throughthereddoors.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775222/zipesevakazakot_weviralokinul_nerujasinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acscmerch.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969077/xakopizigewab-wajonuxevipo-kebin.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/1/0431/2625/9876/files/vaguzogovimufenagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3307/files/6481338984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7301/9808/files/76987376585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4481/2438/files/96145474486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/felosebikize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7740/2778/files/44255933451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/52913259461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5153/2963/files/zitevebisakexugamivotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3574/4673/files/79646847719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1588/7256/files/tuzizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5538/0630/files/5723346205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/96335731607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1058/0902/files/52188271485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9389/4044/files/vemoxomazepisuk.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
🗂 Part of campaign: acscmerch.com 7 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7552 5312 bytes
SHA-256: cee513846961bc4791502ac9728a2daa53e3b18d4dd523ec222359645aaf56e1
font_01_sfnt_off00008788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8788 9552 bytes
SHA-256: eba2927cdfbe8213c1109f002a1dbc035006fc0b0de10d42fb021b0faa3117dc