Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca60dedc9834c4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 10:52:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 38c4725e9224a4431fcd77f5923c8712 SHA-1: aad0d9bc2e1ae23ed29a3c678b3def680ac106c9 SHA-256: 3ca60dedc9834c4c41af8cf127f54e7571fcc3574733454e9fcf5a1c03386386
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body also contains this URL, presented as a free converter lure. The PDF also contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of the malicious content. The presence of a download button lure 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=scanned+pdf+to+word+converter+online+for+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.hilarymccarthyart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/fofufuvu_kekujosivobuxuk_janudowaj_sivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teachingvisuallyimpaired.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695445/mipepezemozunapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ericvanbaars.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696214/koriperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adentakorea.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740429/6582465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7367/files/35690397216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6820/9817/files/wulapukaravabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2990/2998/files/constitution_saving_throw_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6841/5400/files/33898178276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7663/0181/files/eight_hundred_dollars.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9330/3204/files/78305816400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/tuzesuvonefetevivufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9782/6207/files/windows_10_optimization_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8638/0197/files/padudikitutumemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2053/files/nesegejusizotoxolesoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/fundamentals_of_fluid_mechanics_7th_edition.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_off000074c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C0 5012 bytes
SHA-256: bea9bd711612f0fa454d8bedbcf66e40aef350d304defb1a4fe8d10119859952
font_01_sfnt_off000085de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85DE 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 36ed5a58e768897f3408cd331624c45f9d86e668d1adc28a688e0e1d5244ccb7
font_02_sfnt_off0000a838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA838 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2