Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8aae3da90334be2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6d6d4c8b478a1b518ca89b2103ce0c56 SHA-1: 863e356996dfd559cf8019caa7d7bf491c744d8f SHA-256: e8aae3da90334be27126ef7b7c7e19ec5cea3ad5a5fd2d0114db98481fa0518a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of a large number of external links, characteristic of a link farm designed to manipulate SEO or redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic flagged a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pdf+liberalismo+economico'. While many links point to benign Shopify domains, the presence of the redirector and the sheer volume of links suggest a malicious intent to lure 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.com/pify?keyword=pdf+liberalismo+economico In PDF document text
    • http://farewuvo.besodium.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/6285599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karenlouisejoneselementary.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874451/ea89b530.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/1/0431/0417/4233/files/academic_example_of_information_literacy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1703/files/15966357690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8362/8708/files/75715587850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8959/2473/files/predictable_revenue_aaron_ross_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9028/0609/files/vavewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7138/0383/files/is_tarble_canon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3419/files/79714316406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/45251784546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7268/files/boxigorasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/89907811458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9902/1731/files/asana_pranayama_mudra_bandha_2020_fourth_revised_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5497/9477/files/embroidery_patterns_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5917/3790/files/fundamentals_of_electric_circuits_6th.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2783/2733/files/19236432099.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_off000061c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C8 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 7af1c0c01da6dcf92d46780b2fca13be782ae13361eca92fe327f39a00c3f9ed
font_01_sfnt_off000073b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B3 9456 bytes
SHA-256: a085f665782a2047d8a0470bb727d44506e80dfe52232552f99099512cbdb488

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