Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15ccc60ac93d2c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 13:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cfd428d65970d1c33735715026f6609 SHA-1: 84c283e84a62233adbca844cdfff3b56fd511302 SHA-256: c15ccc60ac93d2c3b1be4170ae1e7a256cd67231015f8381c1ecf727d70a72a3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=vw+09a+transmission+manual'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, including 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body contains obfuscated text that includes the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious link as content related to a 'Vw 09a transmission manual'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=vw+09a+transmission+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.rwomf.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/nidunulatuf_pofemeteramiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eatfatboiz.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710783/xovidiwaja_fisepalom_weror_tamiguwinusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bulkleyvalleyhoney.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406291/5859772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mannaministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/susiguzura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themusicrebellion.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696558/rugisukuwedube_viwalil_xerasu.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/1/0431/8288/2980/files/43630869068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5609/5644/files/vexewujezekumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/xunurogekesunetusovovago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7639/files/jirosapadijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8795/3053/files/62989511185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8326/8263/files/95106813810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2246/5699/files/89991247487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0972/6870/files/79821039652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4772/1892/files/riwotaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/69369132149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/gifogibosenubigaw.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000096c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96C0 4952 bytes
SHA-256: ac1d337aef29c20268954102827ce941d3dcf999d728ee330aadeee273584b13
font_01_sfnt_off0000a77a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA77A 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 69c238271e198c125b843f9a2315c6dce62d1274c03103dda1dc92731533c0b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000cd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333