Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae0995d1e0b0efd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 11:31:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f61ddde77d7dc192b61558a9d14e7a79 SHA-1: 72a611750c888cbda46e7bf4ed37369c6efcfed2 SHA-256: aae0995d1e0b0efd2d25cd82018b7ac2c4ffbef809bbe01f268ca8ae5959ffcf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is part of an advance-fee scam lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure through social engineering.

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=the+a+team+ed+sheeran In PDF document text
    • http://files.geojaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739674/moxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.profwilliamsbiology.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407742/juderefemulubes_zamaxiwibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.photographybysergina.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/bujopudade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northernillinoisfootandankle.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384573/5285262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fairyboatscrubbers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738835/90111a23.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/1/0434/2343/2861/files/lidufomejuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3778/4224/files/light_novels_translations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8389/0850/files/dimoruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/526428265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8246/files/87776677597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8143/3242/files/44066866916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7287/9773/files/26596455704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7368/3112/files/kusukezekesorutunodinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3101/0199/files/76145003311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/nupogolosofiwidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8852/7013/files/kakesuwebidagilububaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0708/1622/files/zujesasexoborotoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8956/7650/files/41552053947.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_off000091dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91DD 4984 bytes
SHA-256: ab64d33adf79ef8ab2615dfef9926020c4dea99464076250013775a65fa224b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000a29d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA29D 16100 bytes
SHA-256: b285d05a6cce24bea9dade9a946a37df2b4ce74b8b304529c5c237349311c4fe

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