Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafd8884ccf9e912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 10:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61c4db5a2fd7ae55a197bbfeee38efbc SHA-1: 106868a8314a527123146f3f75a9aeb6eed552a9 SHA-256: cafd8884ccf9e912aeb4542da8f7aa4e4451dbcb37258c51835d885be7d190cf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text is heavily obfuscated but appears to contain the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ski+santa+fe+weather' which is flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. 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=ski+santa+fe+weather In PDF document text
    • http://files.visit-resurrection.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070751/4672567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.macroleaders.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302716/7992482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.growcommunityrva.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303082/cf6ff8635b260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redeemernewton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775950/1763599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelithaven.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776490/8256081.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/guwesimutetalajizobanubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5430/1338/files/83018468752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2629/2634/files/petumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/volobufepafolosovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/64742045035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0698/3333/files/tavanuwokotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6027/4087/files/88123930931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4501/8017/files/jakaruxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2279/files/wijaweropudoredebegitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1425/0905/files/82016006673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wevola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3733/5464/files/wipowipelevalalisudipi.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
🗂 Part of campaign: macroleaders.com.au 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5925 4760 bytes
SHA-256: 67057f8c6c05e31121670f60d72d8d5e79deaf048f262dbaab912b9bb999a34d
font_01_sfnt_off00006940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6940 9728 bytes
SHA-256: 25abc8af5595e99de1f1bd1a2069a5b8b3b32b34e7631672bc9a034b248e3a9f
font_02_sfnt_off00008a84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A84 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333