Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8597e7102694376…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:24:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 850747e0ee828638e9caaef1c84fee83 SHA-1: 28ef1b1cbfa7a7030f95463c660ccc389e85aee2 SHA-256: e8597e7102694376a12f0c43d2cb0ea5f92e00832af6c8e0e0a8f11cf478f351
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true malicious destination. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=harvard+reference+style`. This URL is the primary IOC, as it is designed to redirect the user to further malicious content. The document body, though partially garbled, contains the text 'Harvard reference style' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=harvard+reference+style In PDF document text
    • http://files.gemscorner.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775905/d0d68910.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/1/0429/5258/9465/files/55713649992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1817/files/wigagaroxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4939/2030/files/38965520265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3546/6655/files/gukevazenumotikuzoralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87967576867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2905/4118/files/37273353201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6597/4690/files/17413989621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3465/4358/files/adjectives_adverbs_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0171/4587/files/40275832908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0421/files/90844536026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3287/0037/files/97762222687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5690/6918/files/35797206225.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_off0000992c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x992C 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 96e792395df5733017399de77b4e7438f8931929f414782802ffb0e912f16f5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000aabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAABE 10404 bytes
SHA-256: fbf7955cf97b5f60bca50178c1b3f6576aa9db96e4c06b1af890a660ce46cb84

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