Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 207524885bed8f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 21:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fcc392f3c443dd4bf573df46cc932e99 SHA-1: 292d9424338ee2be03a448c1544d569d7f5aba54 SHA-256: 207524885bed8f41b376e8535dc84f518e174f25973af187989673424ee59197
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is designed to lure users into downloading further content. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of a visual download button and the embedded URL in the document body suggest a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/pify?keyword=macos+catalina+final+dmg In PDF document text
    • http://files.oakcreekfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379828/f9a46bda83.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/1/0432/3124/8542/files/besopube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/51725840379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4107/1016/files/86688048826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8216/files/juxonibokovosibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2550/6208/files/du_ba_sociology_syllabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vunazazaxukatokezidabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0949/9558/files/18505188248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7003/6904/files/46488134846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/74951333898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8395/4328/files/beowulf_poem_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2004/9822/files/fubuzurulejikegefatiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7427/3948/files/59308236229.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_off00006042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6042 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 2d8b5e125a27f584e06e9659451b6d76b31b340999c2f1dbd05218d230f0266e
font_01_sfnt_off000070de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DE 9680 bytes
SHA-256: 47a2e39a9e6618b0449d71321ef91ae8361a6df57b72082cbe650602a7bd7985
font_02_sfnt_off0000920e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x920E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34