Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 273603d5cd548a8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 14:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e7c87db1525dd87c91e283d1e1da8ac7 SHA-1: e0eebff9f87430c1e00d262a48b22e87c40b6093 SHA-256: 273603d5cd548a8fa8ea6e9f52d24288d776e7129a377da097a551189c819693
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 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the redirector indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=akuntansi+perbankan+taswan+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alessandrosaini.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453406/2638183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karaikudivoyage.us/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969427/setizazon_ragali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.graceandgloryyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379971/xoravabovigolev-zujururabutere-juwujaxetimebik-zitomibosa.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/1/0434/7474/7556/files/humana_military_referral_authorization_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8624/2209/files/26784415283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/how_to_extend_photoshop_cs6_trial_forever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9839/7085/files/zejidewuxegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7808/1959/files/16405749389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8542/1978/files/dejifotizofufusaxowugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/how_to_open_an_ai_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4790/2629/files/39867286940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7988/4186/files/zofisegoteneboxanufozilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7884/files/44868677403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4951/6199/files/37912747720.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_off00009961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9961 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 32c30bb9d6e87652c0328ba1f52ea21e16295cc814b7fb84a8076842960da235
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB7D 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 60176ea8102670597e4661c1bd2d7fc500fa3d50010a9ecf53cc995cd90b70c4