Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf0b8c1c5f166ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 23:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e2d09ee99a79edf13229c0cabd9b7ae SHA-1: 5e5ac976d6c6092f5ba4a843786d0fa21943a487 SHA-256: 4cf0b8c1c5f166ea0e1c3c688a0df24e5ed63ab43e63eaa73d1f2e183b1fb708
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cartoon+film++tamil, which is likely used to redirect users to a harmful site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and keywords suggesting a lure.

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.
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • 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=cartoon+film++tamil In PDF document text
    • http://nedep.compliancemastersllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683008/xajiterikorabof-sodupekosusax-gofagozoxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jabifezu.baskog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/pejurimelo_bavufes_dolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duxose.theprintingplace.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482933/jukiseduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6917/3923/files/82368722729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2402/2677/files/43643039798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0622/9654/files/maplelegends_training_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1119/4525/files/96742904393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6435/1130/files/daily_star_crossword_answers_tuesday.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0645/0074/files/23833109039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/puxatofutedixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3704/6437/files/44501458137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2681/6932/files/type_casting_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1582/3772/files/89317299512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0652/4583/files/braille_decoder_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9909/1098/files/29751920286.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA796 4428 bytes
SHA-256: c271a1785666948c026ef91da42127999a23ad65070cadac6e18d70371c65f3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000b672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB672 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 18b4e4f58a7908ea757bdabd837317cc99ab70dd7d244d3a2a912fc339301e35
font_02_sfnt_off0000d3fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FC 11704 bytes
SHA-256: 4f880d288cebdca73e9708ea858f6fb5f65e1a5e45139a45d4bb0afe04d4f913
font_03_sfnt_off0000fa98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA98 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c