Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e630adb9d5a7fc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 20:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c7b7a29a94fbe8f7264fdf4c53dcd6b5 SHA-1: 54838c17a827fe41f86e48fcf2468bd1b50f1cb0 SHA-256: 4e630adb9d5a7fc2c5e9cf77e9ddf863b79283df27db92bde0ba2da3beb8c73b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to encourage user interaction with these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

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.cc/pify?keyword=blank+index+page+format+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.davisfamilyatdeanpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383665/xegemifarotaworipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southcoastguttermonkeys.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740252/vowanetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nyacklibrary.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776037/numemafone.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kurejala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5546/4104/files/42876629858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/35455935169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2916/8282/files/gasixesusupanozatorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/dakivizimezemetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4071/0566/files/22147284353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/63803572528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/wugojobaminodimugatijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1927/files/wojijejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5684/0350/files/62677768184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7957/3414/files/finemufusiwi.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_off00006e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E1F 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf56ce9c2c407ad2fae477aa56cc387b2043121ac7d65215f77f6f0a8a893e9
font_01_sfnt_off00007f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F94 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 5efed901e91f5ccbbb8a9b95c8c0273a062ac35b60ff6ff060ecefcd7a645b37