Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0f38444441008d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f016710cad1dcf5cf627c8e95fe80aaa SHA-1: 4208f7a7ceb5b8e3bf87fe44c46a2971edcb0b3d SHA-256: b0f38444441008d5dc649f69d571052ab0871b1f6f802fbbef0324960e0c7d92
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apc+smart+ups+3000+user+manual', suggesting a lure to download further content. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious files.

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=apc+smart+ups+3000+user+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.lainejaderbergassociates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438570/kitulekinobawe_lutalubepefipe_junimividulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wizaver.stefan-goetz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407945/aad78768e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fumiki.kss-creations.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776394/8739626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gixarenug.okgfdhotcpha.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774978/1584510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobutopow.cedarspringschristianchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/dccd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0717/9941/files/zuwupexexikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0097/7818/files/linear_approximation_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4402/files/10528266049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3485/4051/files/21899551917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8876/5337/files/masonry_works_in_construction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3277/files/56223628396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1338/9992/files/88943857038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5287/6455/files/kopamamamujajajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1387/3569/files/21657644519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5452/8677/files/assassin_s_creed_identity_game_revdl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0791/7729/files/23878138521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3180/4574/files/instructions_for_form_8863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1480/7974/files/winovodidoluxopapiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6341/4682/files/dipegeko.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004fbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FBD 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 203d163b6960f8bb9fb993970ea6cadc8c1210b9879d706e1d43fcf64c391b29
font_01_sfnt_off000060b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B2 1412 bytes
SHA-256: ae94bdf17b024ca027e687e0e4044d3aefca181336710fe869f9b6c926c5b67e
font_02_sfnt_off00006865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6865 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1881b60837c4a73747ba2ff768aa653608134f2e43565203c2e83cdc11b5bb
font_03_sfnt_off00008b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B80 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378