Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bef2e233fa3061d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.2 KB Created: 2020-08-26 06:05:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 95fb2c5a3390d3eb6fa8dba4b52d451c SHA-1: 4a118a4686fcdb400a6a981304cbc955c31b16cf SHA-256: bef2e233fa3061d92dd03dc26383e18fd9f73eeac2fca70c0e31248449e373f0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes a reference to '2008 vw passat owners manual downloa' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking this information. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=2008+vw+passat+owners+manual+downloa, which likely serves as a redirector to further malicious content.

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=2008+vw+passat+owners+manual+downloa In PDF document text
    • http://romezeb.flavoredflowstudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680835/kubajubodotox-duwerexutinopov-wimugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movingcompanyokc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/lelunalilubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vonderhauswulfgermanshepherd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813797/fivepeno.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/1/0429/4026/8711/files/xugunaninomivuwunevowuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0903/files/loturanapafubiwapupobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7323/9195/files/87241694115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8685/5840/files/sinuzajuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6265/7177/files/nomamema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4950/0315/files/zewusajimifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fixasitisajixumazurezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5370/2550/files/24424555144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/topulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6848/4758/files/case_study_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1888/7073/files/reved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4977/1430/files/expressions_allemandes.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007ae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE8 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 68b18aebdeb697b81f332cff695e77b7d1b264f49a22951fa8983cb8d67214a9
font_01_sfnt_off00008df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DF7 14308 bytes
SHA-256: f3d6fca38b2f9edc96e89d8d9524d4c5c8e934d030ccd9c55a12aba3de51306a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ba8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA8C 16132 bytes
SHA-256: d9b012042df5fe8dc074c42eae0f7627b15178249d85eb70dc7afc452d134ec7