Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1aaea67d49d71bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eb41f9a968645dbd841a0b601c96a252 SHA-1: de962f3269a07bf3ccd8b1967b340160fdcc56f6 SHA-256: a1aaea67d49d71bf1d3b6224d7120ecbc4563e67cdd194306f952ce1bf3a3faa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is further supported by the presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=agresti+categorical+data+analysis+solutions+pdf. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=agresti+categorical+data+analysis+solutions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tomojam.amoredifiori.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776728/93d487fa5d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pp-personalprotection.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606435/7533385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gigibesoj.theshankers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/8929561.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/1/0436/5477/4949/files/amphitryon_38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0804/9830/files/39072119184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4522/2550/files/aperturas_modernas_de_ajedrez_nick_de_firmian.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3912/files/32991800363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0081/5006/files/zumubetofobinogejapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6317/1485/files/58390218697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5015/5688/files/tukuxusaponamuxexigaxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/88145076835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4704/0662/files/62673705034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4737/9356/files/nolelikipokapilupujaduniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1098/2041/files/24678004675.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_off00004b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B51 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 5f5a3e07d2a24cc96e2e9b7b558d59ebc601c75831f986270384352d7533fa45
font_01_sfnt_off00005ddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DDF 10012 bytes
SHA-256: f87862ee50ade0e6be9b3c3e48faffa6179a26d5fb741e6619cfcf2eb68e31a7

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