Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2a68036e28a7d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 06:02:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6bf7cccd4c0bd74fe5c7f70da692cb0 SHA-1: c49a9a7eb51b2c32d79fe0444b187bba6a432e0b SHA-256: cc2a68036e28a7d4bdb55e8c381ba610ec8f7e8ea205055272651fe206252fd5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=general+affidavit+form+pdf+free', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting malicious websites.

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=general+affidavit+form+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://zexipuz.jencolby.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695384/8191049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardreuser.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681456/c336422cb4c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edgelandscapeandmaintenance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382590/5b29d1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smokeandmirrorspi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814343/daxudifutami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zone3firecadets.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856046/6195394.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/1/0435/4696/8215/files/69092554885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2624/9885/files/mt_hood_village_weather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0210/9856/files/74010480289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7816/3363/files/analysing_data_in_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4695/1319/files/the_duck_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5332/files/kibokofizofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3789128943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9921/0407/files/cocubes_aptitude_questions_and_answers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4017/8333/files/ziselunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2811/9706/files/64573722570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7275/7668/files/sagowubirefuxepidigumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8697/8984/files/80459226159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2578/files/piwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3364/7509/files/18126023607.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_off000069ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69CA 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3d1a0c0ef7dbee64295f25dd23be696d185c6b971093d152b8469bf6cceb28
font_01_sfnt_off00007b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1B 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 2aeae02759d23022a3e146acf4126d62d82b34ce1583b16f80e90d33e611186c