Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ebda2f02b19bf0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 499b0f50ee91c73f8951da3e8b3716cf SHA-1: 6ec33b115a74be841e9c78ac2a39a97f3c90a3a2 SHA-256: 8ebda2f02b19bf0ad754de54fca9802ca762657befd39a2935afce876538eccb
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=certificate+background+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains embedded URLs and suggests a social engineering lure to install a browser extension or viewer. This combination indicates a likely phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=certificate+background+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ratolos.simplybprints.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379312/selenop-piriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morganlawpllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739802/suwojukiludinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leescrossroadmbc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383760/padikitegova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alzheimersocclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379253/nedafekokedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.breastlearningonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070560/3c345064edea.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/1/0427/9438/5575/files/rolowupaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1813/files/33683138456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/block_adobe_activation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0305/9110/files/kigefiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8024/5657/files/xamunosanelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8557/6857/files/before_you_were_born_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/rapobujumikebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2657/0664/files/pretty_ugly_poem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/famagijasunidekoruxufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1311/1961/files/pafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0767/9397/files/rukuvirogomedesoko.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_off00005189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5189 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 0ee0d84cf0dd1dc15f09868f6165f88b331eb8c30de790ebb1b7b735f21e6a49
font_01_sfnt_off00006357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6357 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 47c11632e914fdbcd688b11e77cd7fea8f955fcf69a89c153ac49975ee5e3efb