Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a49fa7b3e53646b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 01:14:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5f03e06660a109076d6bf9abd8239d32 SHA-1: e8290af56a847a5ee95bdcb9942c4a93d30c25db SHA-256: 4a49fa7b3e53646b7ee1f0c7a2d6ff553f5c74a3396cfe2ede405217a83fcc8f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is embedded within the document body and also appears in the extracted URLs. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious link redirects to a URL containing a keyword related to engineering drawings, likely a lure to entice clicks. The document itself is generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it might be part of a larger phishing or scam campaign.

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=geometric+symbols+in+engineering+drawing+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.appliancerepairmacon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740536/5382287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freyawaterson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453284/1622477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teachwithssb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438874/pubefagifafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.positivevibesonly90.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/zuduwisojejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolinemiekinaillustration.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164081/6229087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2477/6354/files/ziborezosanonepesigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1054/6071/files/god_pickaxe_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4659/0872/files/byod_policy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/5hp_honda_outboard_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3626/2050/files/vamawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fuwofomakilaxenifotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3028/0352/files/armor_of_god_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0290/4222/files/wovatezafabutexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0503/files/wakaponomapokajorupopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6758/0322/files/22550841576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6593/1936/files/jaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0324/0871/files/corso_di_armonica_a_bocca.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000088a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88A1 5628 bytes
SHA-256: b1c05e08c6ba925ac74aa1c38579b2bf2a43727b45ccc438f6ccff03f5e72c17
font_01_sfnt_off00009bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BC6 10508 bytes
SHA-256: ae046fa668e962814a78be198ffd599ca324bdf726b73dfbc94cf33bb8fc5668
font_02_sfnt_off0000bf66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF66 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f