Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afebff4fe4c9654c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65752024999d255d0f16f5c79d2e97ab SHA-1: 363e493096ac021113d79829328d423d58083a90 SHA-256: afebff4fe4c9654cede223b8577031c8dc5825ba6b60ffb23d83702dc41b629d
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 link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=casein+present+in+different+samples+of+milk+pdf, is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure through a deceptive link farm. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct malicious actions.

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=casein+present+in+different+samples+of+milk+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kauffmanskeep.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814666/pomanidafavuka_jasadovatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mobilegamedoctor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437210/a262e89a5bf8d72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.all4pawsdogrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/9425829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.123tkd.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/cb40413f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0433/5537/3720/files/4369475807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/lixekolobolofibijabiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1336/files/grass_hog_weed_eaters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6987/5111/files/kifuxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3794/0122/files/fuzzy_logic_genetic_algorithm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9074/7295/files/56055371534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3059/2160/files/35712166360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83300066175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8029/5334/files/2020_us_open_women_s_draw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9062/5191/files/setapavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/naxenirasobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2633/3351/files/55170868102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6974/2999/files/gilerimajeduxikekigebume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/48797467757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/77300439799.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7753 1636 bytes
SHA-256: 0a2e4d9274195423913154c8a7386442debaa5599bba726f837b993d3f048c68
font_01_sfnt_off00007f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F81 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 4a316017657cf09e490c2767bd746c461de4fbd86d116c1af3d21da6e779e18f
font_02_sfnt_off000090f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90F5 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 32d31c2387f524b929e877bb8eb090b5c9dc90b957004e1ddd7b34f1e003361d