Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ddb58be316fcae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 13:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1132a1429473069f955cf991808b8903 SHA-1: 5e50cad32f67b8e85707a896fea39fce9aa0c31d SHA-256: 8ddb58be316fcae0479cb4f7d0530550f52c41097ce7f53d4dc20a77d535535b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with a keyword suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of links to Shopify domains, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for 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=pdf+adorno+teoria+estetica In PDF document text
    • http://files.simplyyounutrition.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775893/6664414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redbarnsaintbernards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776486/retude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melodyjeandesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407183/4988402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fairhavenkids.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/fefaz.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/1/0432/6840/7464/files/84984485035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tepumesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1269/1867/files/nexorajinefuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6556/5589/files/52351339100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/73278426948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/pojeporokirejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7954/8580/files/92714579054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8720/7327/files/sepolenofowinawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3105/1931/files/valudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6396/files/31412568562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/peboginesewuxexadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6356/6755/files/metafasutapapupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/10097037615.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_off00007ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EF4 4772 bytes
SHA-256: e0e29fd6618cd57351151cf28360b05f341030a2249d18e6732c9946c052a6b1
font_01_sfnt_off00008f2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F2D 10176 bytes
SHA-256: fcbfebe3be0ef4ab26656cf29e4007fceb7ee764ec797300fed478573138a523