Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c12728064f17c5e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 908f03d9a515e0203af42c5b75f7fb58 SHA-1: 803c3dafe70d569a099c3c56a3dbccaf1f1eb795 SHA-256: c12728064f17c5e3fc76e7e48c8c4be2ea8b9280d3e52c9021efb604456fedbb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector link farm. The primary redirector URL is `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=html+template+golang+example`, which is likely used to funnel victims to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content or visit compromised sites.

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=html+template+golang+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.undergraduatebusinesscouncil.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606006/sosamasegan-fulupudiz-ladesodibatim-dipuxapafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagapew.catmintcottagestreetcatrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/4431803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bovunu.redrocksins.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695832/8569761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smsyates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454317/guwuvulevixe-fenajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delezo.cliffjacobsonmft.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/nefakop-mewajejeda-nuzuretugin.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/1/0430/2857/8467/files/javascript_project_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1611/files/zagefiwukeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3850/6146/files/adobe_after_effects_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1789/4050/files/78013262646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9471/2228/files/89821893159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8568/4124/files/offensive_security_certified_professional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0439/files/asco_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9415/4146/files/34762042289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/state_machine_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7677/2250/files/nirajelimosoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2535/files/zotipumemixiwoxufadabiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8131/0114/files/loweze.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_off000071c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C3 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 1ce62c2f5436430cc96dddc97ebf2ff1cc78f4de09f4fd339734e8e8bd66ef05
font_01_sfnt_off00008256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8256 11760 bytes
SHA-256: 4426124c16fb0b9a8b6dab2aaf3170cee83f0abc124e1fd72d555189fc1449dc