Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf578fb99ad766f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 06:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abc6dae9b0a8c683f572bf4b7d158ca2 SHA-1: aadd0916696289fe2ecc7814dc4bb5ee38365421 SHA-256: cbf578fb99ad766f88d96d6395fa9ef4c4ed0f3124d04931b702b0999569063c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to deliver further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same movie title as the URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and visibility for the malicious content.

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=alvin+ve+sincaplar+3+full+izle In PDF document text
    • http://nafazo.charmed-liebling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384306/1179549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balirova.wildoncherrysalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856124/xusakefi-bituvadom.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/1/0433/2473/5643/files/92331892928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7420/8415/files/nokuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7625/5897/files/chaalbaaz_movie_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3113/4365/files/98589958150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1149/6343/files/thyroid_storm_guideline_malaysia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4646/9793/files/bixavaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/texojorigerusoxuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6146/8567/files/47893873329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6778/2821/files/anti_politics_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/8276/1628/files/nadaguides_classic_car_value.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FA0 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 4728a7f43dbad39d22f26a3b387a1b56f743e089c9d395924ce1ce359af2cf0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000608a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x608A 11372 bytes
SHA-256: a5a79fe8186570e9eb2d8bfcfcb5157764324d34ed98234c0a7e9462c92567e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000843b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x843B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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