Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4afde5a811e01ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 07:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7deac7e582f8e8ff99c1cb71c3d44917 SHA-1: 43449e530fbc07f897795b7609cc024b3a567747 SHA-256: 4afde5a811e01ec5462e452af02e0d43f5efa257af45a0248fba265aa0b23f0c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, pointing to `ttraff.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure for IELTS writing examples. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to `cdn.shopify.com` hosting PDF files. The primary malicious URL is `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ielts+writing+task+1+example+answer`, which is likely used to redirect the user to a further malicious destination.

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.com/pify?keyword=ielts+writing+task+1+example+answer In PDF document text
    • http://lotol.illawarraanxietyclinic.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813834/malomijinejokig_wewajuvifoviru_ritijapid_pitobuxoteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.milissweetstogo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739614/7984546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juvuj.leisurelyblithe.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/vivajuzirukoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rizuvetid.cookcreativemedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453041/98b5430e41e3702.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/1/0440/5464/2853/files/death_note_movie_imdb_parents_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2755/files/nugenenatomafeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0079/1191/files/domawibatozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/9042630640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/14383346846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8120/files/moduxabowoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2051/7537/files/centrales_electricas_en_argentina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0112/4760/files/burewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4344/5141/files/rirejonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7262/files/tail_command_in_unix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0659/1127/files/92311892111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5235/1144/files/nopibisakikijegajavala.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_off0000899b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x899B 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 31a71855c42675935019845188f8703238e13d4b3c2f0eae9f809db051f93967
font_01_sfnt_off00009bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BD3 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca6dfb468d5b77bc608daae7371ff9fe86ea20ddee08d562648f524e3aac1be