Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e02b596e9e0ef9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-09 07:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9a8262c7affae79566e631b262e661ea SHA-1: 0843c6024218285f1ca50be6afa81d34bd1cbe51 SHA-256: 45e02b596e9e0ef9f12038c03764a6ac776115806628280463d6056aa4488101
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.link, which is designed to lure users into clicking on further links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Cosine rule worksheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.link/pify?keyword=cosine+rule+worksheet In 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/1/0464/6843/2040/files/33924511476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2734/8121/files/puwubamazipokojenekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7383/6958/files/xobepujoxutiviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8092/4837/files/78497923345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2623/6063/files/xudigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3263/3495/files/42004943789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/dexariwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_66c7f2eacaf843eaaaa6c79fd64ff1bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_daeabcaecc4f4978bdf1d75e17184d24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_347cf763950a493295616fa879c9376d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/895bef_b9c75eb7031b4ea895dfb41e57ae325d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f451828e6a5e4f59b1a49fcadbce9e02.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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A5A 4624 bytes
SHA-256: ebacccbb8ac3eb9978d9d144e7b04aaefa6433f6cfe2ebbd24ef3f798d1c1a3b
font_01_sfnt_off00005a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A14 3128 bytes
SHA-256: 6967b163aab7518dc30e82ce99b84cd7f69d21f81cf4225d8f08db93334c72db
font_02_sfnt_off000066d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D7 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 9fdb3949f6854a8733620b5522be8056fbc752a82876ccc8b41d3165c800dc42
font_03_sfnt_off00008a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A22 16376 bytes
SHA-256: f267a97a42ed964490c0c36cf8d24d30f5cfc386ee24850e75bb3a4991f11828