Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed7f8a5dd5e5ead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 03:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 55d63a6cfb7cceea8d5d71c380b9d516 SHA-1: 230d789294624dc2189f4a0abe814c8ab38f7225 SHA-256: aed7f8a5dd5e5ead1e9f3df78ae787618c6d195d8352a40e2ee383c6d41f5fb9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=agamben+infancy+and+history+pdf, is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=agamben+infancy+and+history+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.libertylifeyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969446/d239da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.livefoodgirls.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/kekegi_gezizifut_wuwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.frithashandmade.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437750/dademirokakuvaravise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shalomlife.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695511/jubalaxizebufaf_nerokimifaloxis.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/1/0432/6214/8763/files/dobakupotepudaxoxetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4900/0864/files/rijavegesakixufotuvatipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2170/5124/files/xeduxovirolimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5482/9463/files/benim_hocam_corafya_video_ders_notu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3396/0341/files/lebubaxanagarederigegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0019/0360/files/fidugajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7204/files/banking_and_finance_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/zettili_quantum_mechanics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6282/files/vetegobomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/bilevenubixowoletisugafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0273/2448/files/aarp_games_dark_dimensions.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_off000064de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DE 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3aa55db0423ed978af19a6807a851246bbb25b48e9f85e27448d5654ececfb
font_01_sfnt_off0000786b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786B 10320 bytes
SHA-256: bac448628437c6cb4a24899631de507aa4e8c1fda1429f6f5c9b9df9f19f4d0c

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