Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0cce2b7fd9671b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 45069a8cf72ee10da6635a86e90bc282 SHA-1: 30247a432ff007d43731ae291207a5b8928400c5 SHA-256: cd0cce2b7fd9671b441d332eed73fdff56c990dd4144df6a34d892fc50c73475
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to hide malicious URLs. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=management+perinatal+asphyxia+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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=management+perinatal+asphyxia+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.unccenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776602/nibevox_rusupuzo_tizomela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ragsboutique.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637308/vonibikeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.my-bwk.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680869/kijuwegomomazen.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/1/0436/4396/1504/files/topographic_anatomy_of_upper_limb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5820/8674/files/doxixunufevigibuwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1800/9250/files/bibbulmun_track_map_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7963/8942/files/wozalegutejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6285/3794/files/53496531775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/central_texas_driving_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9476/0862/files/60648137650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9599/7096/files/informal_letter_writing_topics_for_class_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3320/files/82348573341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/33254348648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0946/files/ribepi.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_off0000f85e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85E 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 90c0b41d1e63d9fd5a0438d36824a3a4b0b35d1006584e18aac67ff1e8a4acd7
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6D 13812 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6467ce484d11540d3ffdf8ff6c43908ebdf390b119554ff01b64de0e396a2e