Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37afcdcc25dce8cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e0605cb64ccf29dbd04e3b4b2d3ddd91 SHA-1: 674aab263a3a65134c9686cdaf5f3df33db15d69 SHA-256: 37afcdcc25dce8ccc316726b8bcd5fca518d43c318278a0229f5e56df862b954
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=xbox+controller+button+layout', suggesting a lure related to 'xbox controller button layout'. Another heuristic identifies a PDF link farm, with the primary link pointing to a Shopify domain. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports the malicious intent.

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.cc/pify?keyword=xbox+controller+button+layout In PDF document text
    • http://files.myindietrail.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398125/5756474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rationalhedonism.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814898/zebuxevajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charlietaylorphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741241/sajodolibububal.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/1/0434/6649/0006/files/79512242486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1661/8145/files/gidonline_kino_ru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1713/files/defaxisumivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1333/files/fegowitokawanoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8179/3698/files/88524559490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5110/3894/files/roselyn_s_c3_a1nchez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8742/9785/files/tepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3448/3605/files/what_is_mrt_exe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3426/4231/files/80068852906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7389/6602/files/zilerexuwezikotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1995/2550/files/fiwavelobezikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/anet_a8_cura_profile.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8735 4900 bytes
SHA-256: 29cfa741fb60c7572c2a75bed2ba47e9bb5541ede6cd9086cd98aed51ec81e90
font_01_sfnt_off000097f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97F9 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 6527c5a7ccfd486c75982034fa9264c01666b13b8cabef76e6763438cff5f6fa

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