Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8e18d9773947a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 08:07:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c8deecfe24a6c74573540b7e0025db96 SHA-1: 39bd0031f95a9d352f0253c81dd9ab9304c2a93e SHA-256: e8e18d9773947a8e146b002b23f6fbce460c49e64207594e2f91ad0a6843eb3d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a 'screen capture app apk' download. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document also features a large number of embedded links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, indicating a potential link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=screen+capture+app+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.brendagratton.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302966/b6d30e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovel.tdpbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739275/8e70dddc7b70262.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/1/0429/2401/5783/files/psychology_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6275/5490/files/torupinoxewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/28842258253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6286/1730/files/79721265876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5266/1912/files/10379623624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/papural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9509/2376/files/taylor_introduction_to_error_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2273/5767/files/bhagavatam_dasama_skandam_in_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3603/0614/files/konewodejefobavirivuvorab.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_off00006546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6546 4884 bytes
SHA-256: c2bd67cba3a94a190e9fe8b6e63e78a642d5707d74d6270b3a737d0e3f9e753c
font_01_sfnt_off000075ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EA 10828 bytes
SHA-256: f58495ce73497e39edc23d0cf5db0782ed00babbc29d866efb746aaff5bff43a

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