Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeb6290875f717dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 444fd99fc702faa74f1a06b3359a8a62 SHA-1: 5a261f011aa43bceb345085fc5d4e8e75520409c SHA-256: aeb6290875f717dc03af86741266e748f2fa7e8ce936e022723d624294294718
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 external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=insurgency+definition+pdf', indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm suggests an effort to obscure the true malicious destination or to leverage SEO techniques for distribution. 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.com/pify?keyword=insurgency+definition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thepurplespoonbakery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483266/wisodopexita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canineharmony.ca/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814826/fesibuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.willconnect.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970005/53bd16de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eventsbykelli.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398385/9034557.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/1/0434/6327/8758/files/arithmetic_reasoning_and_analytical_thinking_questions_and_answers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5050/6142/files/riranopazajejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8269/4312/files/pugagatisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/gexomenipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5197/4818/files/periodic_table_hd_image_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/multinomial_logistic_regression.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mipubafuminidumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3313/3209/files/ramas_terminales_del_nervio_facial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9515/3058/files/1237106550.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_off0000e9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C4 5120 bytes
SHA-256: d76404390524dff9ab5d94e7af3202a961f9a712bb558280d6ebe343ada96f05
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB52 11964 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac83c426ec71cc652ad84c18d9485e49f11860a828abd3332543ee9b406e8af

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