Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d89e8b7a5d4b6611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 05:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 82ee3a18562a925c762773269ad8bb08 SHA-1: 8ce07ca1c63409be9d0d3bf2dba091a072e86a98 SHA-256: d89e8b7a5d4b66112bc84455719f44784d3421cee8118e4d1d312db644db2b27
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 Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=venom+easy+balance+lipo+charger+manual', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further stages.

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=venom+easy+balance+lipo+charger+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.byrdsworld.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/gimixupatusopupedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missouriwxco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/2abbbd2e20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wufesoxog.greenhousewivesbathco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410399/vawege.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/1/0432/3812/9823/files/lesupogekozasonosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0573/files/68922861834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3874/4476/files/43725978181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8986/0510/files/kaleshwaram_project_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7954/8580/files/4102143038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3111/7467/files/movivujigumokoxubase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1961/5901/files/definition_of_visual_impairment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/zagagovitisiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/greeting_in_japanese_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1967/2472/files/96007493333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/loxed.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5516 5552 bytes
SHA-256: d39c333f52192f59cd0b742ed31f06f4d9a509c5401044b025420d01fb46c7bd
font_01_sfnt_off000067d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D4 14020 bytes
SHA-256: 1b64129393212e6fdfaff06a8ac5a5f8441cea9b07f089834be0724bf1355a5b