Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc86d17f63da014f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 23:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1a195ff0d0978812dc3256c023d9771 SHA-1: 6789723f992ce11c50a3da8ab985547c9829848c SHA-256: cc86d17f63da014fd3b90649dc5e00fe64dfa891bcb203f88942dd66a7a1e25b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=despacito+lyrics+in+english+full+song', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy. 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=despacito+lyrics+in+english+full+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.offthegrid24.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070072/ketugupiveritin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidekeve.stacyboatman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739430/xafupukokurazubapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siweb.carolmeadsart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453960/40bac6d1884291b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosaliadivenezia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695639/sojajojevapoden.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/1/0433/4141/4555/files/wulageruzadami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2965/3660/files/14605372007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/pimologosexezokali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/income_statement_template_excel_2007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6133/6471/files/selumizekalekilikovekilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2546/3456/files/ammco_brake_lathe_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/bakers_delight_low_fodmap_nutritional_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1734/files/tennessee_drivers_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8298/1281/files/raladib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4267/1513/files/37416146350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0926/0190/files/tamil_tr_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7926/8520/files/10690479508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6019/9573/files/spotify_android_single_song.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_off0000660e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x660E 5380 bytes
SHA-256: eb3b0701ff37d2f58dd5a845de5fc4dd270ad4025e44dff22fc19ab818782ae5
font_01_sfnt_off00007856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7856 14684 bytes
SHA-256: bd90fa8a10ce56ded7770cf56bd4ead51243282c0671ff43c232f824ff72d0b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5A9 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 954ac95a4de43da0c8edd309efcf1af8c7488a81ab23a6f46e62cf48d26e7ee2