Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b5fa77a18ca1240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 12:23:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7296e9632578b3e93d35f95307e013ec SHA-1: 1f573372b9c2e1b12b1f752111ed535e89db5b07 SHA-256: 1b5fa77a18ca1240eb4745c85b8e2c07f1c5c17bb0990d1ec49f151401540c09
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a book download and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a malicious redirector link is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=developmental+psychology+childhood+and+adolescence+9th+edition+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.shawngrewal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453024/maputuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.makeupbynavpreet.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/5103825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mametcalfe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411688/4c1a7dbfa8.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/1/0437/7998/1470/files/mr_coffee_cafe_barista_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1938/5504/files/72143728411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0046/files/pandas_select_row_by_index.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/circular_motion_experiment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8208/7576/files/history_of_singapore_airlines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0841/6168/files/migosudaterutivixixerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/fotisunevozexetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/chemistry_periodic_table_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5131/1513/files/7562005061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1818/9980/files/17931086831.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: mametcalfe.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A18 5884 bytes
SHA-256: b69a989ba335e7bd072a9275fecf778ad654ca686beb356912a6f14736b0a761
font_01_sfnt_off00005e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E1A 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 989938616f8ab76184e1edfe943f68aebd305ec87c496a6f52ba4144bfc75cdd
font_02_sfnt_off0000819e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x819E 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501