Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95cda5b33bffa03c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 04:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7fb650e5385d981fac303d7666f6b424 SHA-1: e20bcd60c96ae6691ace984fd8b97619b665b1be SHA-256: 95cda5b33bffa03c20a4bdc4419e2ece17fd370bd7bdf745cbe26025dac6a72e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.cc). This suggests an attempt to leverage SEO poisoning or phishing tactics by directing users to malicious content. The presence of a visible LOLBin command execution instruction indicates potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the redirector URL.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=aefi+guidelines+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.prehistoriccollector.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969139/pavapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pitchperfectok.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383314/634068.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/1/0432/7692/7142/files/gafisodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1417/files/robotic_arm_design_project.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/malopixikixikekewufovafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5624/1557/files/87299736511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/4385/0149/files/textbook_of_oncology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1261/1481/files/cmd_commands_for_windows_7_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5909/8279/files/boardroom_book_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3947/3314/files/55330846939.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7512/5919/files/29306766075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7945/0272/files/77386609029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/accounting_concepts_with_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7482/9987/files/79136151172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/personal_financial_planning_report_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.who.int/vaccine_saIn 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_off00006785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6785 5240 bytes
SHA-256: f22c409940661f0be6dbe4551f21968f6622dbeea312c7bd575cf989e0308a64
font_01_sfnt_off00007977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7977 15220 bytes
SHA-256: bf1693b2d403be928928907741715c922b2e8b15a9f5795abca60421c6355bfc