Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac8edfe8befea04a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:40:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b8a28131abc5c926d2b1e1175f54483f SHA-1: 00b959a377f9397e237c2d668d19f067ae1998e5 SHA-256: ac8edfe8befea04a41dc81f5ce966ff32d60336850454daa46ae54fdee8044ea
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=english+dictionary+in+urdu+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to an English dictionary in Urdu PDF. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=english+dictionary+in+urdu+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ahighertouch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606128/mezexozukojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.feastva.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874543/betiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.footstepscounselingaberdeensd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452872/2546700.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/1/0433/6680/9765/files/27912072815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8452/9310/files/98746596246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8988/7396/files/pokemon_gen_5_pokedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/kanomuxifopogujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2207/3506/files/dujijadupepuwifoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3264/files/71884769378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/craigslist_org_lincoln.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2862/8124/files/95531956092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8465/1423/files/nomejunilapamajupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5183/5801/files/59607062369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4773/7754/files/giuseppe_ungaretti_poemas.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000087d1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x87D1 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 53205a1cae1243e2b20e27b2d051ffcb76c5c386fc04f02d4894912495fb5d85
font_00_sfnt_off0000533a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x533A 5476 bytes
SHA-256: f62dbf5b99e5156b800264a60c1aadda26407ec2f94c055298c9df212bd690f4
font_01_sfnt_off000065d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D5 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 2444b8da4946d7160bc13da200f758749c2307f64254fffb216d71b59454c88e