Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd080d722f2b698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5fb022c1ded49cb7d6b58eb45a137683 SHA-1: 845de0222bf5ace8cd45c7e50b89d59bce832fab SHA-256: fcd080d722f2b69893f2d9466325b6983fd3cda78c5dcaa1ed2300b2f6e65939
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=flow+chart+template+office+2013'. Additionally, it features a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body contains obfuscated text and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=flow+chart+template+office+2013 In PDF document text
    • http://jomupe.mclcrd.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410299/vareba-buxudiwiwolopi-defonatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belopesa.palmspringsapplianceservice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/tumuxipevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimimoxiv.asssg.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813650/7431693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fekewexe.edwardmknight.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/gevigubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arborparkpto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776861/2de498092a69a.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/1/0435/6109/1221/files/mozibitusaguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7487/1711/files/quality_assurance_and_quality_control_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/rca_dta880_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5060/files/jiwidufezinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1885/2264/files/kujafenakigosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0432/0154/files/icy_tower_on_line.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/sewinojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3264/1689/files/41128393266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9510/4424/files/safumikegerabigivilosudar.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_off000066b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B0 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9b6a2000b594b5416f05fd15b01c08f2abbb4cc72f30975c0e6f30a86bd46f
font_01_sfnt_off000079c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79C0 9924 bytes
SHA-256: 190bd116876f8541889eb4f27128082a8094f1d9058cf08b6fcc37d9bdb616dd