Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45b9e9f34cc008b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7d5eec211c774e056c2b4673738a7a02 SHA-1: 943909f5c48e5065cfafb60b32436336e85ce0af SHA-256: 45b9e9f34cc008b4eb258d9d21954839efb7f3a4ddc53033a355f6d427b90503
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it features a link farm of numerous PDFs hosted on Shopify, with one specific link identified as a potential lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aha+guideline+stemi+2020+pdf', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

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.
  • 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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=aha+guideline+stemi+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jusinola.merakidesignagency.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/vuwenejivedire-xuzam-jofikuxadojap-firofizofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.futurizeyourself.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/143601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.poorginny.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740385/ribox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naturallytamar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407547/6426862.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/1/0431/0846/6845/files/42492470561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0492/7905/files/core_java_books_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zurutadodusabexefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7361/7568/files/gates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/best_free_guitar_vst.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6180/files/56807312753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/orcs_and_goblins_8th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/schizophrenia_journal_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6586/files/22525736466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3305/1814/files/dutogedowejasovudude.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_off0000e85e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85E 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 284a430cc199e84a592f020560c97b1c9e56d1c6369d946c49b370bc3151fb48
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5F 11832 bytes
SHA-256: 0cbb3f3960ff2085b228645c597569a1abbf06a6f87b2c56cf3caadc6e663c9d