Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7aee047d97fc1e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-07-30 14:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a67acaaec52e958b115eb5c07f5d9750 SHA-1: b9a271beaf75835eb823559130bfc15f82f494aa SHA-256: b7aee047d97fc1e8c90882dae38782e24b047e4d5b83a72d2bdd019bca80f3c9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=benzopireno+cancer+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous external links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6900/files/xidum.pdf' being the first identified. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. These indicators suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful 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.cc/pify?keyword=benzopireno+cancer+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.amritaartstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856205/1518018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paigedevelops.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637362/876f11e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wendyjfox.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069879/datuvepujima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spiritofthefiddle.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438113/b0dc5f72408bc2.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/1/0432/2187/6900/files/xidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2541/3782/files/3371993076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4703/3752/files/pizotunagimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5018/9478/files/14863831997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/45529938978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7992/files/19877014292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8085/1364/files/95989014248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/41783585152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xanixiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6197/8023/files/79819581881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2937/0779/files/43973658444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/fopudejokivilapakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/92320722815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5311/2735/files/nalifimaxitemalalop.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_off00006fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FBE 4748 bytes
SHA-256: ed44c59c29a0101c9166d33476fb5c5cf2dba9c76f39843aef106bc0a4a34247
font_01_sfnt_off00007fdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FDD 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4d8da4464f74eb0635e61b5bc7211b19d93663e1180a0bc80fa719db770219

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