Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b67ec118a5d7cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bca962e658dbf5903cb746292a618d2b SHA-1: 86219e20c6a3163d7f66b1f007f42a2b3edd5d63 SHA-256: c2b67ec118a5d7cb54d36712eab0a1fc23c2cb51592f4e114ed3e5113e8fe8a0
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a Google form response link, which is a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking. The document body and heuristics indicate a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' which is a common method for credential theft or malware delivery. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=google+form+responses+to+multiple+emails, which redirects to other PDF files hosted on various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=google+form+responses+to+multiple+emails In PDF document text
    • http://pemonuxi.marcminsker.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/kenidefujewameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.facemasksforbusinesses.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437147/beseverutetobawivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marketmovesmatt.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874629/nuvigure-bufagejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutejin.nimatennis.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070493/370872c5367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christophercarpenter.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070602/zorulozemava.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/1/0433/0127/3758/files/41773634442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/mulagesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/53099926007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9920/2467/files/87050259234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9627/6128/files/lp_asma_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4702/files/epa_608_certification_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4823/files/ayushman_bharat_offline_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/mufesudimesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3964/files/628773898.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_off00006479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6479 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 0179fb0a1afe0a04f2b418fa13634f1755abe162bbf1ee44bdf06e54f82421c7
font_01_sfnt_off00007651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7651 10576 bytes
SHA-256: c6cc90ecfa89d0e46029d9d1bbf9bc13ff286cfdbff1bef7a59ae1272afc2d4d
font_02_sfnt_off00009aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AAF 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 52db30b66cfb76898988bc7c6ed152514c301740808ab95bec9c68e49df23550