Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a71fcaa8d7f15f83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:08:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4406dbea680d99ab2d90382c0795489c SHA-1: 297ac7ac34d9ad0735b71f19bfbe6342917e28f5 SHA-256: a71fcaa8d7f15f836e6a401954502cd42e6a8c4f80acbee4a935d28cb4abb3cb
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=definicion+de+valores+civicos+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure related to 'civic values'. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse for phishing.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=definicion+de+valores+civicos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dahnmonwhittfamily.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164100/wubufilosim_wisexolasepig_fodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.koolcompanies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606128/tivotamokuwivaxexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westportom.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383323/magusetorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.familieshelpingfamiliessolanocounty.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303041/lofudevuju.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/1/0428/2672/7580/files/17231781267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/20926343643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8729/7696/files/rawigowiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/damegadunuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3910/4917/files/94519945879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0796/5345/files/marginal_of_bivariate_normal_distribution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9331/9068/files/gisaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8912/5791/files/city_of_davis_recreation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3818/6394/files/2d_and_3d_seismic_data_acquisition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8113/7316/files/bahai_prayer_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4105/4105/files/guxubuperegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3028/1381/files/wow_classic_blacksmithing_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9977/5381/files/4540494282.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_off00009317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9317 5208 bytes
SHA-256: bb3509226f7560cb39d38ac1581b1acba4e0d35ef902d46f2a287f4a80b4c178
font_01_sfnt_off0000a4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4F1 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 44c4891394f9646e05166ae81e47b4dbee46a6a1731dda947022085940bf60e3