Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf6903dcc808413d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 22:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3730e0425ff79b426791dfba6fc69c3b SHA-1: 54b6e94ffa49a7d6d230c972dc42b7d09c242407 SHA-256: cf6903dcc808413daefa31662eb8347211716bafd64bedf3cc102e0e29fd0f53
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via malicious links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=ielts+vocabulary+speaking+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://duvoribof.protectlifeinthe419.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874620/watutoluziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.houseofaromas.online/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969440/pupipa_kakikufafumoso_getovefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ironfistboxing.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383998/4155003.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/1/0427/5326/1724/files/remove_blank_pages_from_adobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0412/3557/files/vl_orion_paintball_guns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/iso_9001_certification_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5598/6341/files/jexododiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6628/5462/files/mobisekufulivedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8602/0775/files/nelutagaxagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2441/4882/files/organic_chemistry_wade_6th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9317/1103/files/69318325038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7536/2198/files/47329645321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/70254945183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9198/2491/files/xakirafikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0271/6572/files/auto_brewery_syndrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7899/6383/files/comparison_paragraph_examples.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_off00007b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1E 5624 bytes
SHA-256: ac82161b97c9cf68b5c662c8f4281da7346b83df0df7a9ddf8dd952388185962
font_01_sfnt_off00008e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E5D 10288 bytes
SHA-256: cc7a74b36553cb2031442aab7e9c21920e1f39ab82414b3543c79448a1a4ef38
font_02_sfnt_off0000b1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C5 16120 bytes
SHA-256: d1c8684a1a3d898794fb67da7698232674cbd89070737fd881b584d0545c9aac