Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c145b00d72d1a31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:16:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f316363bb64026c7344b2303383a2fb6 SHA-1: 313e2a83d7c8f18fe31c18b8bfd1c5451745b2ea SHA-256: 2c145b00d72d1a31acb0d403e0328f671da866be66d6ad7066a94321155c2117
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of an MFA lure heuristic suggests an attempt to harvest credentials or session tokens. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for 'gb whatsapp app apk for ios'.

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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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=gb+whatsapp+app++apk+for+ios In PDF document text
    • http://files.burlingtonveloclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740965/1238461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.womensoutdoorweekends.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710700/7924301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musodaw.susan-mcmahan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775557/vugajatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xewiron.cambridgeman.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382133/ada9077acd2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0431/9461/3924/files/basic_applied_mathematics_for_the_physical_sciences_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/angry_birds_2_2._0_1_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3973/6487/files/65868679902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9281/1669/files/bomezojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/62255350911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/telesis_merlin_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9658/1020/files/jujokelovenetitibubiwemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8185/9225/files/kezizewuratolawekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/2264261599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8553/7175/files/95969485614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2454/0071/files/65414192943.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_off0000670d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x670D 1768 bytes
SHA-256: a7830af281c6d7b61dc692724ea72cf36a7ea757c697155e9fdc4833d1a940fe
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB4 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 9024e86c85949c89763e8c3d2a3a5ad2732bf4ff093c91c251dcf82a86331ded
font_02_sfnt_off000081c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81C2 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 46da9d240c75284d19a090a0bf671058c442f8738b4e2ef746ae38fafeedc068