Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35b8ad2f83cee180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dde319cda885c85041b30eee3135055d SHA-1: d7cb31e901ebbd30aa8ffc0936fd5e8d62172331 SHA-256: 35b8ad2f83cee1804aed79580a7195b38cff82afa96eb3504a4b68fb1e6716e4
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to an 'Android one oreo update mi a1' and includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but the primary malicious link is to 'ttraff.com'. The presence of a link farm heuristic suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a large number of links. The document body's content and the malicious redirector link strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=android+one+oreo+update+mi+a1 In PDF document text
    • http://files.lashthetics.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/b1ca995dbe8de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tritherapymt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406592/muwigitadudoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.closeandpaschalauction.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607063/8792964.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/1/0430/7881/1810/files/xotesijaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4659/2924/files/96833675640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2624/9885/files/tegivawudokosijavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2473/3592/files/44802834434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4836/8288/files/97528204289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9270/4408/files/37771817626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/30956230902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6350/1222/files/36713656924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9664/6556/files/jasuxuwudatezutadiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5191/files/govulutoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5181/8903/files/9753437533.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_off00005be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE1 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 1a18404baad9597a22cd1918717b3a70d5461630f9fe2b03bc2d42ab52c8fc40
font_01_sfnt_off00006c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C92 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 0164c501b5382561b024bedb637c3c6c72aca8a60933a9fdf5e76c4c3792e564