Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adca4c84d8263976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 08:18:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c02890f466503ccc781d6ad5f345379c SHA-1: 5b822d4dd55304fd6b08fe02a7bd3507d007dc04 SHA-256: adca4c84d82639763f62db212d65372f31a48c7149244a9e4d12cff7a9d20db6
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a download button lure and instructions for a password-protected archive suggest a social engineering tactic to bypass security measures. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dreamweaver+cs3+portable+kuyhaa, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=dreamweaver+cs3+portable+kuyhaa In PDF document text
    • http://files.salvageddesigns.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814353/mumiparazudos_vilizon_fededim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talbotspecialriders.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070911/51458160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusilizi.jar-group.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070476/2429386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eastcobbyankees.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740270/xugorexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.peerteaching.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/237fa13.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/1/0437/5478/2869/files/ethical_considerations_in_social_science_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0920/2597/files/43809786076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1122/5246/files/positive_personality_adjectives_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5626/files/pevitokuzakizutuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4266/files/genobapitubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9767/6192/files/wimewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0549/files/guitar_finger_exercises_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2794/5889/files/cat_ascii_art.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9011/5748/files/nba2k17_badges_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4290/6007/files/zasodasazuworel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/mefosevutajolovatufogepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9776/6553/files/atomistique_chimie_gnrale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8638/1210/files/96244831770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8869/0841/files/alkaliczny_styl_ycia_chomikuj.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_off00005faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAA 5796 bytes
SHA-256: 9614546aea166da8ea10b6c797fab9d727e754a1c42da11ea00b19bfc105dce9
font_01_sfnt_off0000735a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 312d73aaef8a13369b006e942baf2654c9cc86a74d9b10a9873d8560ce11d3b2