Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6433590b54f838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ee6e11d8552f501649b792711387ae6 SHA-1: 8c51aa59d5b27ea5733b14cda23c38db52cfcf02 SHA-256: cc6433590b54f8388f19ec3f3fc6754e5094183fae4f622372751cd18e1833a4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a deceptive document body masquerading as a capacity assessment form. It embeds numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=capacity+assessment+form+2'. This redirector likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing site. The file also contains a large number of links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for 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=capacity+assessment+form+2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.jemskpropertyventuresinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/renugenisifaneb_ruwixeraxilij_jajef_kebev.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/1/0431/4464/2715/files/99273897667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rexalomofovuwazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7544/4631/files/97797316430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6294/3127/files/xesupesikogunulakezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6850/5766/files/bemawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1425/7815/files/16262091507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1554/files/55617939615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2560/3488/files/11836158740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6436/7006/files/gebukupepajuzizomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6140/3802/files/buwixudilipokinilifufap.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_off00005c0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C0D 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 35bc6d9233a4c593968f96da84fc9db15bc77c0e82c8760a429fd40d63e0e293
font_01_sfnt_off00006deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DEB 12652 bytes
SHA-256: baac927291358484e0d675026768372bd8dc351d86f34fe12791af38edae1773