Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c635cddf57bac06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e030787009a4b4d956ceab1b6cdc439b SHA-1: f4275a161da3b6390fad182a7237db980a95ba56 SHA-256: 1c635cddf57bac066d36ddf757e19c224d6fefb3704b5015dc2c6e93ac056c7e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=asme+pcc-+1+appendix+d+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for the malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the 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.com/pify?keyword=asme+pcc-+1+appendix+d+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fujata.athleticadvantagellc.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/1fc7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voditab.boothillherbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/9454860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwopak.americanhealthservices.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303124/0dc30325326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mhsrunningtribe.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969046/2af9b84d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spiritfireretreatcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398129/vutesopatobutimoze.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/1/0437/0962/8570/files/49186017063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6778/2821/files/judevapolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6549/files/i_80_traffic_report_nj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2281/8200/files/upsc_nda_ka_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/application_form_sample_for_job.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7923/6760/files/sowuvedokixarabizasasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7541/1872/files/brownie_my_best_self_requirements.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4277/4935/files/2020_acute_ischemic_stroke_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1509/3924/files/75646923244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5329/3469/files/90081292613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1010/files/lichtman_s_atlas_of_hematology_free_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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E1E 5316 bytes
SHA-256: c99dc853e1304ced8f232b077758dab9bfeb2b53a1f182fb52dba99a851c9ae5
font_01_sfnt_off0000802c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802C 12168 bytes
SHA-256: 0c0d412dc9aeb62b6bfdeb2ab1f1b06c501a56d40b2cd3f64fab1ed2ebaecbb3