Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401cb5ba24f47ed4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-07-29 01:40:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 26ffbb67dd53e1df4d9b2e0194d08329 SHA-1: ebac1e47aef83ec2a451f69c4017b11b51e9c6df SHA-256: 401cb5ba24f47ed4bff1fb55d69ce9ef37be080a74e6579ca178d21995e88194
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as an Emirates ID registration form. This lure is reinforced by heuristics indicating urgency and a callback phishing pretext. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. The primary malicious link is the one to ttraff.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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=emirates+id+registration+form+lost In PDF document text
    • http://files.reyofgratitude.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/rusipufaduzoru-narakepivu-kazuxulitatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shilohhill.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/aec69c012cb1b88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaelandsydneylovepi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482953/613ce0fe.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/1/0439/8628/8798/files/23813218859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/4913105602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1559/files/negizigokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5357/9430/files/weboselonegarufurofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4353/4486/files/62751255369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4017/8333/files/98789746243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1786/1280/files/zizeruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/80872446359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/5421996066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1631/3242/files/99640605348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rowogumidakedodovejizana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/66214200486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/datumaf.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000083f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83F8 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4b281ebf492be98f2f0a37a6ba8074df53a1154b60ba6112a3b67b1011c040
font_01_sfnt_off000094bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94BD 12900 bytes
SHA-256: edfd44421441f351a372b3fb843b4375a8efbe3b54b56d4ba0810eb9c2e80e0d