Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bda24cfd3bc1387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d40e65eb180db70e1bd4de94d258a8f1 SHA-1: 23237fcae01a6a9147da70f3157ac09acb34e8f6 SHA-256: 3bda24cfd3bc13876851709c7f1075f00ee3ef27ef568393155f2a7488a40344
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious Link T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com' which is flagged as malicious. It also includes a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and mentions 'ntpc group d admit card', indicating a lure. The presence of a 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic suggests potential execution of commands, and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic points towards a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=ntpc+group+d+admit+card In PDF document text
    • http://files.oberonmassage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813841/bijemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vujona.elitedancechampionship.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739206/64a4d1fa8162a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zujaniniv.tayahanson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776791/85d41f553409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibewlocal176.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379789/jalogagar_duximekux_nimuwobab_kulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedoxex.elksfairwayfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398125/8157139.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/1/0431/1751/0818/files/39978161613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1973/4938/files/uninstall_powershell_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/4963/6255/files/modoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1798/4405/files/asciidoctor_title_page.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3365/5446/files/for_loop_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6759/5169/files/hemolytic_uremic_syndrome_pediatrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3685/9813/files/35433329757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9367/1588/files/88542565269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53262414385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/2440/2843/files/hindustani_raga_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1634/7035/files/multiplication_of_binomials_examples_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9458/0136/files/java_update_checker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5673/4109/files/49903263687.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BB1 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 6297b96948d7eb7f0f4a7b275d78016cc82eae801a2f396f4a3eb7338a69e356
font_01_sfnt_off00007d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D16 1848 bytes
SHA-256: c286e42f6559c24d9f2577171c75940b640744c47909722957d09582759eb7e6
font_02_sfnt_off000085f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85F2 10240 bytes
SHA-256: c359079c98b30ea4f2f75a14bdb54b75cee8c009ad5fd6a230a966911d041c77