Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2f011e6ce24130…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb6eac813ea5658c498dd2304c875e06 SHA-1: a85de9e5585f1bd0696ef6e5e688c99073f62ed2 SHA-256: 2f2f011e6ce2413096c59fc867d1cc5086c498b2283a7d63d62dcaf02faff0a9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body contains a call-to-action phrase, further supporting a social engineering lure.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=check+cpu+temp In PDF document text
    • http://files.laurileesgolf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/lixugadafap_gadoluvewabix_pitokibudisiti_fevadivusepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nahanee.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/gebikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.votejeffreycoakley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/pufosizogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.well-estar.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/91a0067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fumcplattsmouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775277/totuxi.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/1/0433/8624/1189/files/dosofapanapabosalamizoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/zatitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1551/1968/files/world_time_extended_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0892/5602/files/38322920865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6122/9206/files/21905152533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5335/0040/files/41731049412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/86558851590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32377204601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9478/5694/files/danijakufotavobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0948/6498/files/2007_toyota_prius_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1065/3338/files/mokugekisaxutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4398/6327/files/pugujelugitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/nodezanutezano.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_off0000b2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2BC 4628 bytes
SHA-256: fbd412e40657978c83f7527897f5b4620b8a15cecbc917da07b186030ba9811c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC258 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 15a724bbe74d8f906d5904a784e0121d183021e14b92e50e607344895364191f