Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4760dc994be058d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 07:37:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d68719c623697e273806248a172898d SHA-1: a089c2c0dc8785f6198af65613ffce1e65a47111 SHA-256: 4760dc994be058d586c1d327d645922f5763367e6f50384efe5eefe566643fd8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Quittung vorlage privat pdf', suggesting a lure for users seeking a private receipt template. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links, while many are confirmed benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious payload. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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/wb?keyword=quittung%20vorlage%20privat%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lagoj.coolacres.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/zekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.courtneykanigphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/e2ec0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blubocker.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969053/9595849.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/1/0430/9418/0001/files/dslextreme._com_webmail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/jisojezitibakisizadivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72163988246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/47733569568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7586/9603/files/basic_trial_advocacy_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5060/5461/files/73774540209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/35497207981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9898/8949/files/telugu_andhra_jyothi_news_paper_today_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/nepenovefunudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3395/0370/files/surinilulipuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1064/4377/files/gejazejaxeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3399/files/76767579529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8390/6724/files/how_to_hide_subreddits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/81862012752.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_off00005ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE1 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 6a764e99059075f6a67e41fdf834db971c1eae47fbe008a2d3e530a8d3e8278e
font_01_sfnt_off0000707b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707B 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 492f84417cb08aaaeb40bebe691edf3c042f90662c234c0751b87f4521314343