Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c670a71fb3ee8c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-09-10 10:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00eaba074dc97db2f19fad3233a32eed SHA-1: f612bd8a7c9b2b92c2a23f6b87f2bb09703c1f25 SHA-256: 2c670a71fb3ee8c17abfad8d7481194d3622d3c14e813cd400fefe782a9d5b29
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to travel guides, but the primary malicious activity is driven by embedded links. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that one of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=kuala+lumpur+budget+travel+guide, points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.link/wix?keyword=kuala+lumpur+budget+travel+guide In PDF document text
    • http://gepuruz.msnlawoffice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695203/2447678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.depedkabankalancity.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682792/dorimenawabuzefuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sailingcruisingscotland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740589/zipakebarujukebet.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/1/0432/2466/2173/files/51794801335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3461/4688/files/karupilumodinitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5295/6838/files/ielts_band_9_task_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9991/2344/files/bunesubizeripos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/rubilesakewewazezusuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3164/2780/files/fetodusivebetibode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4475/5866/files/bijurezofovobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1872/2216/files/d_d_ranged_weapons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efc97f_2eb2da815b684a02ab74bac6c1ebc88b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca22b_473ad31662384271870ebe7eb3c19637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/91e123_71b105ab9c1442edb8dd3619704ba926.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA1 5268 bytes
SHA-256: b87dfbee0accb23ba21064a94cbb7e344ed8b73998ccfa89911c3d6b409661c7
font_01_sfnt_off00009d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D7C 12936 bytes
SHA-256: ac70b172362f47f9714d345e7a38710e24c0d64c189c8d80c02e7806e465c1aa
font_02_sfnt_off0000c73f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC73F 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 531e37f64a2e7dc3bfb257675d9e6c644c7b1597f33ba9a969cd005a7ed65660