Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0924c07b93c7c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 23:33:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5384922c851d8a67b6362d232544b6f0 SHA-1: 00dd31dd9d98ece9d8003c339951c987af670b8e SHA-256: 2c0924c07b93c7c33bfe0e397ba2acfbe03699169be9704a83798aaca557bdc4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'gold bangles designs catalogue pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of a link farm further supports the malicious intent of distributing links to potentially harmful content.

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=gold+bangles+designs+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.livingwhole.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379540/aa25f9a9db01f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.surrenderedtochrist.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681656/wulegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.broadsidestories.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776152/3a6e3de763176.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/1/0434/5636/4709/files/nascar_race_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7778/0134/files/tojivofegejizigokeguluruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nenixuraxolitater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7218/2685/files/1984_niv_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7917/8142/files/remove_punctuation_python_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rasebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6371/3695/files/38225701596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2949/files/32527005362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9060/8285/files/forgotten_shore_map_piece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99839510681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6404/2396/files/mitesuwakekoluxuvefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9219/5993/files/different_types_of_cells_in_biology.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000777e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777E 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 8c0ba7b87ec3a242d831bf6b7b5fe5702572984ff6fd1b217d93d7facc9dc451
font_01_sfnt_off000089f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89F2 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 1f3ca473eb3d8ff2fd70a3b3afccb6c65b535263b900ef6d611ed2727a6ef183
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE40 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e