Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fc7356c10f912ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 02:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: af0a5238d222b1950451ce110c0f2b60 SHA-1: 433ae9557e951bd92ac4d9ed9ef2b9f12c5ab991 SHA-256: 8fc7356c10f912ae3885a461a1e51647fe2e0aa7086d222ba136ccee8444028e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an '80th birthday invitation template'. This link, `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=80th+birthday+invitation+template`, points to known malicious infrastructure. The document also functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDF files, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, which is a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=80th+birthday+invitation+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.smilecommunicationsgroup.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/vebevemiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sile765.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/doxazufobotuwe-vejoxisul-jexozalo.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/1/0430/9054/2753/files/rukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1867/1512/files/appendectomy_complications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/watotiretadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7419/0498/files/63845016604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/32039181614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0632/files/mushaf_al_quran_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9750/files/electromagnetic_spectrum_worksheet_with_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7078/2614/files/nonusuvidibebekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/95509230481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2454/0071/files/buvofukosatibikesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9966/files/82847656428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7036/5589/files/70325220570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wugituvunajobi.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_off00006203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6203 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 21206bace5d087fe0c8d1033bb77498631f069005a62670ddbf35c80e17e8f63
font_01_sfnt_off000074bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BF 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 85052d33d0c22280fcc19d586cd8b88e6b52587e9835213cc66169868de23600