Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf681dca4b188aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 11:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c8d599ff8c3283f958a1b3eadd9f2fa2 SHA-1: ca157340271c6838207a828aaae7f2cd4f5a7e7b SHA-256: cf681dca4b188aab8d4f22e7bac445bbcf72110748a6fcaebfb75ca4f78851e2
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to a URL designed to mimic a Facebook login page, indicating a credential harvesting attempt. The document also instructs the user to interact with command-line interfaces, suggesting a multi-stage attack. Furthermore, it mentions password instructions for an archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=facebook+login+android+get+email In PDF document text
    • http://pinuz.tsidieselworxparts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379246/tugasafekuzun-widonir-fetinumata-buxozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taciturnforsale.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453401/ba8f1b2be920a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsbscusd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407155/zonutidigobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.janelleevelyn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776220/81bb52727c3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robbiesadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871970/liwiga.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/1/0428/2325/4179/files/63053831652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7416/9505/files/alimentos_acidos_alcalinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/21723543023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3550/7358/files/dimuwedavarerokowepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/26517035361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1833/3858/files/lisan_ul_quran_guide_in_malayalam_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/8007882555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1350/4156/files/kaluvijavusanamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4820/0342/files/skyrim_creation_kit_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7612/2779/files/star_trek_torrent.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_off0000ac99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC99 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 3234d7d94071176c31d23d21323ef0b071b9c8c5bdd16fbb4dfcf7b5833913cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000be4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE4D 15776 bytes
SHA-256: 268660e933ee2c26b7e9de18e8ad4511d965b4cd517276b6d4000d7b5f04d7ba