Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b98c7550219c2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 11:28:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ba7ae7d56bc634b65a68bbc01c7b2939 SHA-1: be95c14191d83fc9d4b4023d256fbdaaf00f6ad1 SHA-256: 4b98c7550219c2c72a2905a1075fe0d664a1734b9d5c0fbb323a5684480ef05e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a 'Cpa compilation report sample'. This redirector likely leads to further malicious content or exploits. The PDF also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.

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=cpa+compilation+report+sample In PDF document text
    • http://files.alpenaoptimistclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/342ff1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smithprojects.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741433/gibidekofo-matidexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.academycounselling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695679/sokepobegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://febovena.baystatesurgery.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/33a46b03.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78394199391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5015/files/ragopetuvesijogigafize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6173/8662/files/essentials_of_cardiopulmonary_physical_therapy_4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7694/3000/files/83430403363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8465/2184/files/math_gallon_man_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1585/files/91885058681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/current_affairs_awards_and_honours_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/gumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6548/1118/files/canoeing_merit_badge_pamphlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2345/6661/files/zofobinixojivikasufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/nudawewaziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/1210/1020/files/imposible_cargar_la_imagen_html2pdf.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_off00006939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6939 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5f5f0b76d39baac39fba4e27bf20781f24ab8cd0a9f84594920105a32b36b1
font_01_sfnt_off000079ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AE 10572 bytes
SHA-256: bbcdda86ce859652f7b4fd20801ef5a371b49cc790af071ded6e117f93be0751
font_02_sfnt_off00009ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DED 16364 bytes
SHA-256: 1c8bc4bf779fdf5fdd428ab6ddc6a1665d3fdc1c26b4364692bd94c1ed605b78
font_03_sfnt_off0000b3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361