Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fff51b7ff8a27470…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-09-11 12:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0379b1036169fdabae43cc5d56b359fe SHA-1: 8e4422c96c162518124d9282157e0b34e65f9148 SHA-256: fff51b7ff8a27470d85e25664449a08c038bba60108191be1ceea5877ba82f67
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large external link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=cinema+4d+character+modeling+tutorial+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on seemingly benign platforms like Shopify, indicates a sophisticated SEO poisoning or link farm strategy to distribute the malicious payload.

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/wix?keyword=cinema+4d+character+modeling+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://niworotil.kitchentowncurbside.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437069/883051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nikospsaltopoulos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408970/tawemisiderukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wafenufir.rkwestcoaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437092/6e44191237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ukcamperhire.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682303/4929cfc58f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5893/6473/files/inverse_modulo_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3318/2886/files/15531078582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3998/8648/files/wapaneweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2879/0946/files/cf_auto_root_full_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_f08ab341de074b419379c03653f4f2fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9f6a24_e623f5e2e5254676902ee3d660ec824a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_c5c8242e40454c7f82ea8cb5f28c8174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c45bc9d1bf74eeaaa4d98877f68e436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/607883_7808a0a482e8439881964ad951e8d0dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87fdc7_a776f3f8cece4e42a03a1221e39c4e60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b52961_b37cdd88d60b4be292b765fd7697efcf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/837d34_fd9a871366514a1ea57739b2b9fa58af.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B5B 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 2dc50d01642ed32a4d1d13c09f5d6f255e636cc46a94c8aa94557b093e80d654
font_01_sfnt_off00007d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D81 9972 bytes
SHA-256: c5f1a05d5c0ac1c68ff138dec6790c4c79ce44bf7e85fc836eb1ff458c46c697
font_02_sfnt_off00009fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FA3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e