Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 125c64952fb040b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 11:36:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9c9fa0815dbbcf7cec0331927f32ac49 SHA-1: c84f36861ab0811fee4e464c1d3bcfebed66741f SHA-256: 125c64952fb040b18adb37b7617240218f84cd955269b6a246f69ba29d975894
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a deceptive lure related to a vehicle manual, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. It embeds numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=auto+manual+on+a+ford+econoline+van. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of many external links suggests a link farm or SEO abuse for traffic generation. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and embedded links point to a phishing or redirection attack.

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=auto+manual+on+a+ford+econoline+van In PDF document text
    • http://files.ruralcommunityfirstresponders.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872269/tavefixegokasalenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.losangelesaazk.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776164/kigofuxuxotes_puzopexalojedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trinity-arc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740905/2856532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oceanislandblues.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/382ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sugarpinecabin.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164308/380566.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/1/0431/0279/7986/files/polaris_pool_cleaner_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5453/8658/files/12612636101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/fantasia_models_daisy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2910/0701/files/2992828605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3741/6869/files/gakanab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6174/6595/files/zopesibusabusavekexaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5226/1795/files/pufejapatitiviruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0555/8436/files/45314750376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5686/files/79795995069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mufowotipopugisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0471/4404/files/kajurivedofijijatevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/lesazegorakemizeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7690/2309/files/85972823370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4253/6604/files/doviwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/6520054811.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_off0000c70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC70C 5040 bytes
SHA-256: e00c14786346621200bfad820061408db7b278fbef55dc2422322b5179ed84af
font_01_sfnt_off0000d820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD820 12716 bytes
SHA-256: c24dc3ab57e046a7d161767227bbf6ba3f893e17c1b362364c4d986dacf69c30