Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37cd929a34221c9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 13:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: da5250355690f497ff43605212f83d83 SHA-1: be93da0d4b87d8f1534aee38e478e690f62b375e SHA-256: 37cd929a34221c9a0c142f609f807d627025ae29a255541c977504170ecfec70
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Air force previous year paper pdf' and includes a call-to-action phrase. The presence of a link farm with numerous Shopify URLs, one of which is also identified as a potential redirector, further supports a malicious intent to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • 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=air+force+previous+year+paper+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.raglandclay.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857465/manidesorumobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.castawaycottagefl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738657/zesokulunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sinaitoys.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406182/pufon-rubasefemu-kixixifug-muxujofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0932/files/luwekejubibabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4775/3640/files/jemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7794/1913/files/5107223808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1901/0201/files/jalorokudajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6640/9639/files/20752034659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7614/files/miparimuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3131/4077/files/39076799153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4702/files/dikuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7905/files/37493041959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/2857609843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9002/5375/files/77859471257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8908/files/tavubizakuf.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_off00006c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C6B 4964 bytes
SHA-256: b4ae37753223323d1140c7838890be9a035e0d89de5d8303a846f7eee3ccb861
font_01_sfnt_off00007d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D66 10324 bytes
SHA-256: bf321b8c9178e203da2a0e3d3f0c70994a41e1182509858096bf8fd51630011e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0B1 2832 bytes
SHA-256: a12908a88df35a7e9eb57470e9a94a806bb52df392ce88a62d07cba2b79b9044