Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07af471823fb1bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:48:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb1cf370dab32c964f4f5b8ffae12ac9 SHA-1: 33b15459b48092a9c15f14678e328e2e05bdd2bf SHA-256: 07af471823fb1bf6146687c95e720c15be64c1ef00ab01f8218f98c5550641f3
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirectors and SEO link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=financial+accounting+journal+entries+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to financial accounting and a URL that appears to be part of the lure. The presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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=financial+accounting+journal+entries+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rogercoss.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738875/vavolupabukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reikifortheplanet.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302815/5645773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ostrichcolonyfilms.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636692/6742454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sciotoheritagetrail.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380029/cf218b32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cococollections.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856290/f37f643020f.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/1/0432/2649/7182/files/makikuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zekimopesafirizaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ruwisosipopiwusanitilowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2739/0887/files/sowotukezepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gowavofopinesifaremoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6690/8054/files/pekawemebomasujalesedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4154/4599/files/47336928082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/jabopimafaxidewamaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4942/5823/files/cosatu_policies_and_political_affiliations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/22605601243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/27688019385.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_off00006679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6679 5356 bytes
SHA-256: f3b596f88672348ac363d206c922778ab0b4e0bc8bed55d695d3e61e2b0fdaae
font_01_sfnt_off000078c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C3 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 3406981ab5b925e72d59051aa023a76ad4d66501caf1ce5072776bafa69855e7