Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8580bb481e3c84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb7f694c2b119ce0b3c2e58d7664d327 SHA-1: ec3897c3f5c93af5fc7d05e389e2f685e4269b91 SHA-256: ae8580bb481e3c8410b5fa25913ad0284db3a0755e7957918472347b99819011
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to academic content, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a mass link farm, further supporting the malicious redirection attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=first%20order%20low%20pass%20butterworth%20filter%20using%20op-amp%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.arabicwithnadia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407549/5607946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talgolani.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776498/32ad234bbaadc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carlwoodsbutchers.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071129/a40f38f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zejopok.huntmyideas.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/59925bde8868698.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/1/0431/3815/4650/files/66739503755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5540/7511/files/kibulinezigemomibupoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8493/files/jawusisanetiluvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7015/3113/files/37650723678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1491/3191/files/xulofuvurufitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7004/3813/files/88515108286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6495/4775/files/ds_cia_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1816/5146/files/1733230667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2235/8427/files/45653543334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9715790575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3337/7440/files/19913196195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0446/8134/files/54212110852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3908/files/68049019131.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000820f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x820F 5672 bytes
SHA-256: dda40e53e0f1551bfbfd4d208da85d57b00bb8017187e0d0f17ffdf3fc05c092
font_01_sfnt_off00009544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9544 14604 bytes
SHA-256: 011ee3acb06e6c6f20b1b316a15779180dca90fdd2e371a87ccb5ddb4f0de941
font_02_sfnt_off0000c4b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B2 16148 bytes
SHA-256: a9f7946c6fb1d9a56c6cb1188e7327a1cde7cd9d6d2f72310ea27776ea41e62e