Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfcfbfdd666d3a07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:01:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 86706941b16a2d0a05a51966bb045da5 SHA-1: 339534c86d2ab3d3b4551cf8ecefca43e5d15c28 SHA-256: cfcfbfdd666d3a073542c00d655d5eca3aedcbdd85d0db0f486c55b080ba506c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the link `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=factors+affecting+acoustics+of+buildings+pdf` leads to known malicious infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests a pattern of hosting many external PDF links, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to the topic of building acoustics and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=factors+affecting+acoustics+of+buildings+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.boaznoy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740493/subakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pasturedpoultryinfo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/selogofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cetonantzin.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696122/d006b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.waynecdmi.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/gibewitezi_zilugewopojat.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/1/0431/0292/9047/files/mulelonoliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/lexosifefuxetarenikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3913/6661/files/sebotoratomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7624/7967/files/44823282605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3935/0181/files/lufujelujibegorojemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/31481366376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1059/6765/files/yardi_training_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6462/3265/files/65947044936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/jubumapimikizujefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3242/0262/files/71794170683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7465/0261/files/gojunerifovepukiradun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7303/4654/files/12725025382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5329/3469/files/nivimurubewib.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_off0000740c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740C 5420 bytes
SHA-256: dc126971425dcf12fa012b8fb80f55b60e816242090550cdd91874a8320b6008
font_01_sfnt_off00008680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8680 13704 bytes
SHA-256: a042371e70daefdcaaf68506e1334359214bc01e1a4d7e42654248aa9e042612