Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1bc6e0f2cc3c361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 16:13:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c66b7de6bf455901900818e0bce03ae7 SHA-1: fbfed928aade91d31339622abc5f0793e3cd3334 SHA-256: f1bc6e0f2cc3c361b37041e7f22c2e4bc25c6bc6d8ad2616feebd35f8ed0ca9d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The document also contains a high heuristic for a browser extension installation lure, suggesting a social engineering attempt. The embedded link directs to 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector, which likely leads to further malicious content or malware download. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, potentially for SEO manipulation or to spread malicious content.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=arcore+android+studio+sample In PDF document text
    • http://dilupa.countrygirlgiftsok.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407535/fe5a04d6fb36b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stitchedwithcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383624/dowumi-wefudazebukop-wivavin-tajewowe.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/1/0433/5622/5686/files/74516498737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2195/9325/files/xulagotaminenawifovakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejukimuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0883/5229/files/13060343843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3363/files/regipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7995/7669/files/17085424461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7111/1330/files/54859370896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/gloomhaven_rules_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5441/5515/files/90s_party_flyer_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5313/8591/files/80672336273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1011/2163/files/bolowozulidavopefewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/65465749335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7610/8956/files/1848662370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/medade.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_off0000931e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x931E 5208 bytes
SHA-256: fd4220823e92afa3cbfbc18ad46435d67f3ec28a4b41f51b0d785e22b5a7c788
font_01_sfnt_off0000a4b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4B2 11052 bytes
SHA-256: dc0e3a1470f607808725fa4ca9df09cebe6587fe4cac40755fe4537e3b7789cf