Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca90fbba4c3c9e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:10:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 520b2840907f7ec696986d21856b63e0 SHA-1: b87c5375146b318a116ff348a2fa75f11752c1fe SHA-256: 3ca90fbba4c3c9e02b29eac97f8a1c2d6c855454c00540859d595b9b80514ae7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the redirector heuristic, suggesting a lure to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=abcd+movie+video+songs++2012 In PDF document text
    • http://xiraxu.ddayhistorian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/0ed96ac5dd12426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.livingstonworkforceservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/gupukumezewoma_vogidor_towaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockymountainluxepuffpoodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164476/9d330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stoneycreekvillas.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/257dcc.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/1/0431/0407/5933/files/gasinixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4899/files/50553722825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7652/7014/files/bruno_stair_lift_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/50434516204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0632/7959/files/lujukipikedepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4324/8545/files/10537895264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8346/4855/files/13586954311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9064/1045/files/97635032134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2505/files/71209224693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/8229/5969/files/colorear_por_numeros_gratis.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Related samples 8

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DBC 5436 bytes
SHA-256: f623fc50fcfaddc26a3ca57cf47499d4f6e4a9bc8f516043297d4bdd1bb03435
font_01_sfnt_off00007039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7039 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 76e0f95660a531bafc605d35d0af7916240651abd780470cdecf505e21ea0a45
font_02_sfnt_off000092e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E1 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 39b2f4b99ee08965fd4836f89f628a00cde8346cb181131bba0308e80db8fb67

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