Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16c8e8a0b5084493…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:27:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72403a558ac66ab810a3daf9a5297717 SHA-1: ae9f1d85a7778d432d5822c140ba54b2f83c0d52 SHA-256: 16c8e8a0b50844937d8a9194b5858422af599d296ba613297ebc319e95564f80
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cayley+transform+inverse', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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=cayley+transform+inverse In PDF document text
    • http://files.trevorflett.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739368/2948457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goldstripecoffee.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696210/2210397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.corsicanaquiltguild.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969791/karagomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xusud.troliosprint.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/6842335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gonzalescountyfarmbureau.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/filijawov_wamokinepibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0761/4882/files/xavijupofofozigakipopugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3468/1250/files/user_persona_template_sketch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1905/7826/files/fikavedemonelafukubibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6302/3518/files/tuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0992/3480/files/55315921217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5970/8058/files/xurisipakurizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94393320092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1379/8050/files/zilunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5409/6806/files/12050737572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5491/3950/files/xojeduzisonarurapufuwefom.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6998 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 5c681ba383358c0869dd5c753e7d48a613dc4daae008458f2c66005b3e3b06f1
font_01_sfnt_off00007a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A26 14652 bytes
SHA-256: 0197791da42f8387ed77b783c98f60cfa21f1ee2779ce36b36bbcfbba9855dbd
font_02_sfnt_off0000a914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA914 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 3199fde5fcadac7f1710548267cd11d7b1e139126945fe5aba5af00528db75fb
font_03_sfnt_off0000be72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE72 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3