Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf1b8d7e93da3b25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ff349d49aa040434934ed07d3e8a5aee SHA-1: 2aa95e577912d4c788d3213ef9d6a74cc2d238d6 SHA-256: cf1b8d7e93da3b25e119091c54e65b522f25df03fc5a8d51ea650a39293849da
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains that host further PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The primary malicious link redirects to 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a 'cryptic quiz answer key'. 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.ru/pify?keyword=cryptic+quiz+e-+9+answer+key In PDF document text
    • http://files.jragourdart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406749/3114f1dc136d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekit.warandpeacebuilding.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383309/nusebusug_tozedireveje_kuzakukekuk_bibikamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elitehometeamllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969440/184f0c990db23fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.equusmedendi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739719/2747708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ewb-utsa.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437236/gojejabe-movatuge-zusefisebu.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/1/0429/7038/2490/files/80203050745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7878/5951/files/english_conversation_lessons_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kebiwubinixakagaxirefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3551/6318/files/lolakokagapapunazafegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6859/7158/files/android_developer_guide_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1648/6040/files/canadian_accreditation_standards_for_hospitals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4056/9494/files/manual_autocad_civil_3d_2020_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8298/1278/files/mukalapesemimulowipibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6726/9532/files/tenizibukatibizalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7367/files/big_data_concepts_and_architecture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9196/7652/files/nufufununixonenowuxebojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64630415929.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C92 3304 bytes
SHA-256: 2c0663fcfd3c2802c3afaffd80ff40695c802c323bf86d314ecaf934ce3d6b8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000786c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786C 5420 bytes
SHA-256: c827d5aa42acd6c541a5010eda13211091e0d91cec9baf1789af223b6be084cb
font_02_sfnt_off00008b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B18 11464 bytes
SHA-256: c22e6b27e5af80c132b0286b648c01ac1c0a1f7352fc32a51293d3c2db9ed443
font_03_sfnt_off0000b245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB245 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 31aa257675234f953cb39254c73a0c002637764ec2691c470e0912636c3685cf