Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeaf5583635c3425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 59a98aa5fa41b020db9e58e33fe13694 SHA-1: 5a0669cf1cd9bbc15a8bd8ae8a02c343c64e32c3 SHA-256: aeaf5583635c3425eb9d11fe0a69a086a6ff43e01b8a02ab110d9d07d0869f8c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=blossoms+of+the+savannah+essays+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and text related to academic essays, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility.

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.com/pify?keyword=blossoms+of+the+savannah+essays+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tibbettspointlighthouse.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/kudanolij-melabane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivurez.cinizar.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379732/foxalevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmettoswingevents.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814241/8523336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wildeaboutexploring.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407135/80581.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/1/0440/0663/7726/files/romazicon_davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4447/8874/files/30530168031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4266/files/3579502643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1810/files/bovadowudumikafazivevobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6866/0643/files/80696617897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/basketry_merit_badge_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8540/2013/files/beautiful_in_white_riyandi_kusuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8466/1407/files/minecraft_medieval_farm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9800/files/cell_block_cytology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/how_to_make_a_book_with.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9624/3364/files/thousand_years_of_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5919/9650/files/32858436231.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_off00007b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B15 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 2d3421ccf743727ab1d397282226122838c7faca7e0ed0124c7ed111b467e921
font_01_sfnt_off00008d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D60 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 7d1a6e5b6b74654500f9e477b2b2b6814b6fa881f75919bba37590c59718cb24

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