Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afbcf0cbf1e7afa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-07-29 11:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ebfecc5c5266fb674d1a02cfa56649c8 SHA-1: b0205a4bed90a285b999497100e989ffb21da338 SHA-256: afbcf0cbf1e7afa09c807267bd4e57c48a6a710caade0a7a18200d611faf9f4c
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.com/pify?keyword=billie+jean+tab+pdf'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm with numerous links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=billie+jean+tab+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.clanchildhealth.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383588/luwuwidaluven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dj-dogtraining.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874617/1557252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ericthebige.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380641/bunejorokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theapronboutiqueshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/b333fe49ab3efc.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/1/0428/9291/8947/files/gexiwotubopadafeguminito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23929268289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/68791079910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9883/2037/files/36244688246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7768/8743/files/85651154505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rimudunibodosugesujusuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/94233147770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/96328102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nasodidupafulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3272/1046/files/57266403881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2965/files/42732580144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/wodulabowuzizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/vuwejabovajamalejigegosad.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_off00007f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F7A 4704 bytes
SHA-256: 394350fd14a14f9650e2b635becca70335e6db8cd25f8f6c8201c678f925dcd7
font_01_sfnt_off00008f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F7B 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5deb549de8c94539ae3daaaf9441b31ab6de725bb12348382ef6d58957cfc1

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