Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b642696374aed4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5321b700e8ca3c26c1e4d4ab9b087c98 SHA-1: e3cea6378bbef65386171259b4c2558e9d251f94 SHA-256: 20b642696374aed40b697623ded6db103dc9743511d13a8e4d1949bfcd0021f1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify but some point to suspicious domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL and several other PDF links, suggesting the primary goal is to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=brom+error+s_brom__da_fail%2528+2004%2529 In PDF document text
    • http://vasaziloz.mrisar.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453134/ad89007bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxezakot.413arearaconference.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379362/guvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uogmediafest.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453530/datisab-jegafaputuj.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/1/0428/5143/4659/files/76747729451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4936/9252/files/21325463849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5782/3390/files/puxigipevowemeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4750/9416/files/babopegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/tojipamogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2958/4282/files/40328954241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1780/3675/files/best_corporate_branding_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2324/5207/files/42680735947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6865/1680/files/report_a_chuckhole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6586/8437/files/ignite_eir_aoi_piano_sheet_music.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_off00006136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6136 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 6e663640af3ae74a1cc655b210e25347a024818e176b42f3bd23ff1ba52d640f
font_01_sfnt_off000074e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E7 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off00007d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D75 10480 bytes
SHA-256: d8cce4727ae0520fc614fecba32b2d25c725abae3ca70b4ff2116e7a9d47152b