Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8c2f7121424b14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:34:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d72beb1065bac1220ada142cdcc7fded SHA-1: 7963264268be04423b98c412a9aa2706bd3610f0 SHA-256: bf8c2f7121424b14d76203be98dfab6d4effd054631473b76a3085573ea9640a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=toefl+ibt+reading+comprehension+pdf, which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site.

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=toefl+ibt+reading+comprehension+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.shoptrueblessings.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813582/7401691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caffegiocondo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739778/acfb797ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ratingsguru.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/rukuginotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.islandresearchph.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739275/545d99c236c07ae.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/1/0430/5082/7929/files/varezobirijenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2029/5064/files/xezobuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9446/4929/files/classic_man_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/wcf_test_client_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/zizutowenufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7298/8071/files/76817156544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3723/7146/files/kigususojitofigidavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/tatugemovapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6605/5063/files/zakuwoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2462/9411/files/76915692706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6323/8056/files/jama_sepsis_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13977314479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9288/files/16372521271.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_off000065d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D6 5660 bytes
SHA-256: d1401bbcbcbddcb674af3e2162b8a852886be28927f87aa37f9bb325870e7cc3
font_01_sfnt_off000078e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E6 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 2e3a5a89c62c24da7904c2f712fec65677d29121bcab05d2232bdaaa1937cb24
font_02_sfnt_off00009b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B60 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 18f56b7fae04e07bc119a468ad323bdda099da77b0772854d1c47cc1f39b9f3b