Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c45b4ccdb9654f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 10:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3f4c40a77696fe7ce7f5788e41fd3a40 SHA-1: 50bca05a31a2b980eaa95bbe1963de8460752ae7 SHA-256: 1c45b4ccdb9654f6711c09d7c7787194f5c91468189e3db28fbd7dc026d54e67
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a language learning resource. The document body and heuristics indicate a link farm strategy, with many embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=english+verbs+list+with+meaning+in+marathi+pdf, which is the most critical IOC.

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.com/pify?keyword=english+verbs+list+with+meaning+in+marathi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kadanu.poweroverparkinsons.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776487/gidibuxoguvo-dezerezuraja-tagiromew-fitofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.legacyhomerentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438676/moxefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lisacartlidge.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857270/giwipusadutiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gcshadesandblinds.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398424/dalalujidekudagewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leaderboxessentials.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681625/rudavusidaguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4410/8453/files/branches_of_metaphysics_in_philosophy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0279/6964/files/traitor_town_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/shunting_yard_algorithm_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2264/6422/files/japajanifimarapugurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/9697443791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3120/files/koxajulixutesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9817/7693/files/mia_mcreynolds_twitter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5606/2876/files/44069552670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4970/4854/files/93566701920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9587/3949/files/suzuki_ltz_250_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1961/5904/files/rihanna_ft_future_love_song_mp3_download.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_off000067c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C9 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 74cbfd6ecb1cd1b3fca7528a5859f43b1c7c11e2c770c5dd3b337b2d0b177f06
font_01_sfnt_off00007b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1F 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 81c2573669ff6b3cdbec85c7dd2aa74ca2acd9bd6826c7364d5c3c276e8755b5
font_02_sfnt_off00009d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D0A 6128 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7c1d216dcdf0d78175e8ca36fd1d4f4a4dde5f79d4089b7535ba7e14b4b42c