Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c4cf8176db55211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.3 KB Created: 2020-09-13 11:40:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 47e4725724ca42261cca1f0a04c073ed SHA-1: bb62dc6e88cf650cda2cafc28551b250b9311fea SHA-256: 2c4cf8176db552114b6e52aee8a731b47441d0cc031c7422451415276f6b8799
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=ford+business+strategy+2019'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1507/7792/files/edfacts_consolidated_state_performance_reports.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ford business strategy 2019' and the URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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.me/wix?keyword=ford+business+strategy+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.andrewwarner.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775186/jaroradin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cremationartglass.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482959/65e402c170a.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/1/0463/1507/7792/files/edfacts_consolidated_state_performance_reports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gubiwunezekubukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8932/1366/files/aflac_cancer_wellness_benefit_claim_form_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/a._n._m_form_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/balta_uniformes_profissionais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4277/4938/files/jobepitifasenusepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3884/9696/files/zafigajafovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2500/6491/files/19076680629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/neurotransmisor_adenosina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8448/8607/files/alkonyat_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9793/0393/files/kegisoteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/9701/7506/files/96896804534.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_off0000c095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC095 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 08552066f60d2f9baf8d86a42ae5337d3abab8b2490fa3684654e37601b35c8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 10604 bytes
SHA-256: bbdaeee9aee3448190aeccdecff5917ecc429ed5754446fea8da64aab69e533d

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