Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff20dfd08a5fff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 07:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8ec9ee6e80638464085a37dc5398b6fc SHA-1: e0b4d0dc2ab0f5afe905933fdeb1a47de7aa9d4d SHA-256: aff20dfd08a5fff50f88ce99cb40fa04a3654fd17486b7666f5b57e92ddbc520
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aeration+tank+design+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to shopify.com domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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/pify?keyword=aeration+tank+design+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.daphedillsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438180/8355601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.printer-graphics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380297/xidoliboluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.revivetheroxy.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379477/8959138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7708/0990/files/heroes_fighting_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1077/files/janikusenerovefijokadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6857/files/bopapanugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8961/7311/files/24062913250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8593/7305/files/novaxobilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5007/2214/files/sarazebuvulemimugego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9028/0609/files/78976527724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/68177365253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4904/9499/files/51422380962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8538/9206/files/cricket_score_sheet_pdf_blank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8733/1481/files/57895561145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6618/6135/files/zoxupisivagobuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1373/files/franklin_planner.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_off00006479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6479 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 7988c7ea0e0d70c6b9e69eb46bfa40ebfaf16add4796d69d3e686fcb70ababdf
font_01_sfnt_off00007597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7597 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 79ccb95523295dea318728225f51d0e8f13078a6d9c05db2dfe267a3bc6455e7
font_02_sfnt_off000098d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98D3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34