Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fa9051e4db0e91d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 633af957057c04e8702afa0e978f055e SHA-1: dd3f3715b1c63b09caa3a272c25f4c1310126727 SHA-256: 4fa9051e4db0e91d5a9e92e8377e99c56d0c572159d679bb896353588704833c
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which are benign but serve to obscure the malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious URL. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to a potentially harmful site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=bestwap+my+name+ringtone In 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/1/0431/4116/9303/files/twitter_app_icon_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/30999015177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0077/4307/files/apa_writing_style_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4421/files/bongo_music_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8353/9366/files/wowevurakunedumebidafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1be480_66f430eb09ba41dca3440b0f74803bc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_5b2f27a45ce943cab0cc6641abb96e51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4a9d6_98d69aae09ab45c6b07471d7c7e15ee0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72f3e7aed4a646a0a6eb583b5daed43c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c3584_28b5d56493714395901bda4fca70e4f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_41b2d949c56141c591ccb4dff7aea521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a227b7e916a457b9ae8e2dbba4cf81c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/02beb7_bafc092ac3eb498d8bd11e89d0bbc386.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_off0000643b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x643B 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 892581647b07dc72b3b22a6ef1c0234ddb9311ffb4f991539bed1d04716a868e
font_01_sfnt_off00007677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7677 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 934364efc8c21387ec47d56e2828959b8c4e895ea0ee0b11067fd8eb26aa374c