Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1905997a5f5ba679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 22:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 79b3933898fb01039426f661e4435f8b SHA-1: c38b88a592e6e105bc175f06783c3a215a723270 SHA-256: 1905997a5f5ba679fceb6271e585cb120b70abaae87464a4e683ade9d34e0c5f
270 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a lure related to mutual fund redemption forms, combined with urgency and download button elements. It embeds a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or scam page. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=baroda+pioneer+mutual+fund+redemption+form In PDF document text
    • http://nirufazib.marktobin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/5565218.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/1/0430/8513/6021/files/52989916905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4244/8295/files/wewabipunakizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/super_mario_bros_xbox_360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/16506608841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68513135127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1002/1787/files/93669238522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4666/4349/files/juluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4541/files/32349100680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6189/4565/files/49089981555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4797/7114/files/introduction_to_nonparametric_statistical_methods.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_off0000a02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA02C 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec0ac8f6decc5387d9c0974c7e8daabcdb094055c7b5e795f4964d67345b7db
font_01_sfnt_off0000b0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0D8 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 518fd845025809081bbd70eacbab58321b6c7411be0b8afbc9eb54ca7cb50ba0
font_02_sfnt_off0000d535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD535 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f