Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc35abbb0ce0c478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 24075fbdfa26663a759c798c2b2d3214 SHA-1: 7c303a4b803392cf9680de5cc5c0c346a3c5c506 SHA-256: fc35abbb0ce0c478874cd8c01b1a47ed7fcc6df4216f4a58468ad808c671bab2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=law+reporting+car+accident+uk'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely a phishing or scam page. The presence of urgency lures further supports this malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=law+reporting+car+accident+uk In PDF document text
    • http://xoteba.mondulkiritour.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969747/fde6d62ce6b14c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.counsellingforliverpool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410479/kinivazojixaw_bebubadobavo_sugozulakoto_lufakabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.butterfliesandbumblebeesdaycare.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071129/digitipeb.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/1/0428/3239/6447/files/21297629866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/konajenepurevevarozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8972/9438/files/fanuc_teach_pendant_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3377/9611/files/when_do_you_use_binomial_and_cdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6009/2309/files/27807412920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8333/3785/files/balu_telugu_movie_bgm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7142/9016/files/99984521310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/29600318185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6641/5517/files/cursive_alphabet_writing_practice_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9964/3286/files/58747777186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/30936358609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0899/files/mokun.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_off000079b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B9 5128 bytes
SHA-256: b9abbe350ceb700b34c6c20353726a6a7cd010b5ed052349c6f1b9071a9dc2fe
font_01_sfnt_off00008b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B50 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 11f457ca56ef275e0bd13727af32e09d85f5ca049d51fd054ed0b4a4169e0b77