Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f76b5b6c4f34878…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa706d34e2906829889ed41b1b44a856 SHA-1: 61f2636ac357bf6ace506479b9345dcd03abf968 SHA-256: 8f76b5b6c4f348789101ea45a17175724aa92a8d35a740b43bf55c0aa36b6e88
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=tesis_del_cambio_climatico_pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several Shopify URLs, reinforcing the redirection attempt.

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=tesis+del+cambio+climatico+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nlaofshreveport.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453817/lovegezema_ferobite.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/1/0431/6450/0122/files/legokimuguvijitiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/volume_rectangular_prism_word_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6336/0153/files/mere_pass_tum_ho_episode_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/33647603880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/boxawukivibabivanegifenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9415/5170/files/91926137263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7500/files/febosivozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3608/6172/files/xupipamumeranuzigebamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8187/5104/files/canadian_infrastructure_report_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1463/5165/files/23513862222.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000098b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98B0 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 07c9c7900f82bacaa7a125f541d75d2a4786a29c41ed5545aafdd5c36050803a
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA94 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 747ba94109af6e399e96a95dcfab4840c12e218cf536ba35ba6bac85a009ba93

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