Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf48f7410a05c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9631413f44febbca536f18db315c3c8f SHA-1: 776340d23c469fa1ca3223acd13c00411371413e SHA-256: 9cf48f7410a05c90125c4f069829ab77b8a66784c63e05417217801532c537ee
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=drawn+to+death+trophy+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references a 'trophy guide', suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, including one to a Shopify domain. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=drawn+to+death+trophy+guide In PDF document text
    • http://muwegu.nbhp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407408/sidolaj-zezesevadutegos-sosenuparuwaz-lomamawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quantumbasscenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482819/47e1256e36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.butteswcd.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/redexokinuz.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/1/0431/5542/3383/files/history_of_borobudur_temple.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5371/7406/files/castlevania_grimoire_of_souls_apk_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0976/8600/files/gamuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/81756727696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ferenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/28850891897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6653/0719/files/katumofadajovagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4202/9215/files/fumenebubedudokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2077/1750/files/lazudodipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2657/0664/files/63802097474.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD827 5204 bytes
SHA-256: bbd667c98fb6cdab321a519c967cb251620d55621854f2f645a116d1279e8a3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EA 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 3109f197e3e38abd30e573d6b75dab21246a1acdc84e3fd57f74e5d518ca149d

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