Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae3e5de2f73276a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 16:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 515906ccda17dcd91bcb7642c6af425f SHA-1: 5ffa2befc954e15cf2b22942af25ab146e120705 SHA-256: ae3e5de2f73276a8ec19bdf7d6ef920c576eec3b04bc5400ef5fdcbd76fe8380
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=basta+acreditar+sarah+beatriz, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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=basta+acreditar+sarah+beatriz In PDF document text
    • http://files.amysteeleillustration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776204/191497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ceramikhausofcebu.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814676/faseje.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/1/0431/5725/8395/files/google_play_store_app_install_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8735/4270/files/62198305809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/white_plains_surf_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6512/1699/files/80491092124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/vejaduwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1411/0880/files/introduction_green_revolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/59357519446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2890/6138/files/nomerarenoronafezulanapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0119/2352/files/21432247258.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_off00004bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BF5 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3836216c65b2711673b2a9676d5355deecde859597002123f9ebff22235dbc
font_01_sfnt_off00005db1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DB1 9752 bytes
SHA-256: d7fc6c6512578146248721b51836e18d6160872e05b326004d8b637eaa23ea96

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