Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdc2b116a44f747c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dff14c5ee9dc183391b3517d2c7b0eee SHA-1: 39ed80accd867a495aa01acb597331ab85f62a47 SHA-256: cdc2b116a44f747cc73f9e1ff8a8a5ad59ef2c0760cb87f18f650bf74b5e9f31
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or malicious redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. Another heuristic indicates the presence of visible command execution instructions, likely related to how the links are presented or potentially executed within the PDF context. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the URLs, reinforcing the malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=management+of+ameloblastoma+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sowimes.worcesterdoula.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/poxozuvip-jebinuz-wukobebunefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vebuzili.seanoneillartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/235f88c19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ozarkcountryoutfitters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409794/zikaxenarifu-dukoxasaper-bidunipulezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nasrfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606056/naxibopedutedawobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asyouareacupuncture.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070588/kugiti.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/1/0428/6647/5174/files/55902969600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2036/1629/files/75475493895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0453/2648/files/daparegebebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1909/2647/files/75565873871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4321/5767/files/how_to_post_with_curl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4545/files/uttarakhand_bsc_nursing_entrance_exam_previous_year_question_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5949/5590/files/12813579473.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2429/3796/files/20194461537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2995/files/anticorpos_imunologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zamujogeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0386/2440/files/dixuvumatodojolexobapunu.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4545/fiIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000081fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81FB 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 7e326b33cbe1a53a09286463ab6999d52995fb556b4da6e68a59d76075ea597d
font_01_sfnt_off00009453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9453 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 6fc32e4eeb9f73d8f15dec9eafcc6b573ade9e6d1d1dd1f46c9db62defb80941