Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 053cdf65857cb13e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1c8a5f04d02765c2d1f3a605b0588dd8 SHA-1: b769446b6526ffd71fd6e72d838fc02e74b58c91 SHA-256: 053cdf65857cb13ed42dea95ee79a6f10b9bd5d8aec80a7dc343afe41b8993ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links suggests a link farm or phishing attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=adverbs+of+degree+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.difortea.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636954/93a24cb39b095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mekuvu.primepropertyfinder.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873995/d5cfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lupokum.animalprotectors.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/b3ea7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xosobawo.ahsgirlslacrosse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/203c5c2484b151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thenarwhalandthemanatee.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636980/9ad10c5b51d.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/1/0430/1085/0979/files/54657837007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1371/3570/files/l_alchimiste_livre.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dobemajafapurotexujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/corporation_bank_mudra_loan_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7956/4448/files/26626594406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/lirafaxezasubiwozedika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9415/5169/files/kotowula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8368/2212/files/edexcel_a_level_economics_revision_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dewubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7562/4350/files/19695073684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1764/9819/files/action_words_worksheet_for_grade_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/pugivibukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0000/3749/files/18649154183.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_off0000a961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA961 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b35b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB35B 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 3a3b23f8e10dba714afb86941a0bd9010f697a4e50bb6604484bfdfbed028b2e
font_02_sfnt_off0000c500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC500 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 99ae56061d68e0360336584430c6a35ca434d589e2a3cabd1a90a556e3862fc9