Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8d80b0879ac82ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 59ab56a214835c7fdfc2e0bbc39e3dcb SHA-1: bad0e585b1df19171077c061c8b39fb0767ccd4c SHA-256: f8d80b0879ac82ab34ffe07d2a4c443b56a60ae9e06982a2e11018e7d5c8336e
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cpa+auditing+and+assurance+notes+pdf'. Additionally, a critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with multiple links hosted on cdn.shopify.com. A medium heuristic suggests a callback phishing lure, consistent with the document's apparent attempt to trick users into clicking links related to 'cpa auditing and assurance notes'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=cpa+auditing+and+assurance+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.modularsinc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695639/4910941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jitekazi.wiltondentist.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/8930071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lufkinart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437516/d05ace3ca3f.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/1/0440/6539/0757/files/51635177851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0428/0481/files/fobipekaridekira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1996/8417/files/pikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/wing_chun_kicking_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8370/1151/files/rebewosulixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6231/2616/files/58524833928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2226/1143/files/kazujivexedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7465/0261/files/nitesimibixilibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/majazofuxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/zowunemugopuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6434/5255/files/77443195037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/24440438135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/42584275354.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_off00006f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2C 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 2aafdc859eb049c00b3b12b3d6d9719f2d34fa0f88524a846ef046d2c01062c5
font_01_sfnt_off000080e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E8 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 73dc5ec8ff68b28fc23b2893dbf2006d1caf012d8423079cb4807df5d3aff8cc