Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ec7a32868ca9b8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 19:41:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ef1e68a37977350561019a3e8fae08eb SHA-1: a5e1fb66e4be26117f3dcae8794504d30b4179a8 SHA-256: 1ec7a32868ca9b8c4664d66377b4189cd5acbd35271edfe3c1c2af63cf018665
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com' disguised as a utility for converting password-protected PDFs to editable Word documents. This aligns with a social engineering lure, likely to direct users to malicious content or a phishing site. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the suspicious nature of the primary URL, while 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document may be part of a multi-stage attack involving encrypted archives. The presence of a large number of external links, as indicated by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', further supports a malicious intent to distribute or redirect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=convert%20password%20protected%20pdf%20to%20editable%20word In PDF document text
    • http://files.jaimearon.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302859/danagitepuxevuguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lasvegasmetrohonorguard.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775871/6134112561d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redfishcottages.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740639/6671481.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/1/0431/7410/1160/files/80253734359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3105/1943/files/59538067365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7482/9987/files/1773126955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1358/6600/files/zopozawaxelupewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2572/files/beauty_and_the_beast_piano_solo_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3761/4499/files/penjumlahan_dan_pengurangan_bilangan_biner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6224/8095/files/makeup_brushes_and_their_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1424/0931/files/joel_osteen_become_a_better_you_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5322/6913/files/25453045704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7135/4533/files/bijeridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5199/1719/files/5459342883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3420/6631/files/78506136143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2060/7900/files/electrical_engineering_mcqs_book_by_handa_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_off00005f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F2A 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 24c714892b486379a7bba99f7ee527a0512f3a7eda38121f8bc9c5dcd83954ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000716e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x716E 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 516ca4783a0cf626e9ce38b1f84745b445982f1ba43a4dff626208818ad46fbf