Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cffff580b514b85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ef8cd2e37c7ecff25de74d7ee80dfac SHA-1: 246eda0c5e2fbdb2bacf5055399f882d1f4f00f4 SHA-256: 8cffff580b514b85545e044007310721e79170e9b008ce5d2f4407bf79f9c6dc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'statistical process control charts pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=statistical+process+control+charts+pdf, which likely leads to further malicious content. The presence of many external links suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm attack pattern.

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.com/pify?keyword=statistical+process+control+charts+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wuwuvi.countrify.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/xovomidiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kylpinc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695719/8221715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evidentone.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637014/xasaveba.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/1/0433/0032/3478/files/25912499018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8458/2813/files/issues_in_financial_accounting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51025654711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/keras_confusion_matrix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9250/6779/files/ccie_service_provider_quick_reference.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/tenemigixabovagegobefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1943/files/tuvojinekirafubibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8181/0595/files/genivemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/17968147361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24221046066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9162/files/fedexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0791/files/4764276958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5637/3659/files/86712001203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/wepepusonugusidilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/lawojo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF81 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 389e58c8c545e077138095e7380bff69af0882f35b3647cfbf466e2c7d014467
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D5 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 4670e0bc86bfbdfa1bbe9723b7e059676ff87926f66dbe333887e27181b34865
font_02_sfnt_off000106aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2