Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f84431594c9f51cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d6c8bc563fa477d6b2e0c6ba3139cbb7 SHA-1: 794c775929b5790f1d8fdf2e8b0ef450790832ec SHA-256: f84431594c9f51ccdbc8d6b1da0d19eff7533a0575ce6162355248bf877aab48
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=gdpr+guidelines+summary', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=gdpr+guidelines+summary In PDF document text
    • http://lizeved.spoletogreenfun.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740494/tomizilupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dukeengagedetroit.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871501/faluwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.finelinesfishing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696351/kixojagaforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pofadiva.jwhitneyart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/2726583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenonijip.regimentvonitzenplitz.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/4129089.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/1/0430/2870/9539/files/antrenmanlarla_matematik_1_cretsiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2487/5674/files/mipusilisefubotomosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5708/files/haemoglobin_estimation_by_sahli_s_method.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/ansys_workbench_tutorial_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/14139766440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5590/6970/files/tigepibafoberuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6902/2109/files/working_capital_balance_sheet_concept.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8053/8526/files/introduction_to_managerial_accounting_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78108387577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8229/3141/files/wobajusamofubojekefigila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/mojilima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/trauma_cerrado_de_abdomen_pediatria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6604/1244/files/xuzuvararudifesokufavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5512/8477/files/vobolizamoberegunure.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_off00006ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CA5 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 7847e2dece706fdfc8ccee25d2cc50981acf9bb1fa1abb8ad1200dd1afce6b36
font_01_sfnt_off00007f04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F04 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 84e4a002235296af0cd75cd3d7a3c5e8822624ed7c5c77dc0f23f83b0ebd86cb