Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa6f66fa2d27fd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:23:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d3b3ba75d0b4349106a6aab80a2f5a20 SHA-1: 71cc7ed5be351bc3df9dd303174cd8b00eda4ca7 SHA-256: 5aa6f66fa2d27fd7c6a57c49b77123131f09f4047291294743387e4290788c1b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=auto+mechanics+for+dummies+pdf' and appears to be a lure for a PDF download. The presence of a malicious redirector and a large number of outbound links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=auto+mechanics+for+dummies+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vicenzas-crostoli.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/9062675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cuauhtemocmurphy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383973/7e15cab958a26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.falconhillbz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/df707c99d603f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newworldtribe.us/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871537/foravifesori.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/1/0430/8631/5682/files/badomoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4791/9516/files/advanced_mathematical_concepts_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/big_al_s_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6228/files/arduino_programming_reference.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/gijodepadezudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9256/6435/files/ca_dmv_bill_of_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4630/4920/files/darusabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7140/6237/files/1516836780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6413/9674/files/46884106966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2267/8173/files/mafupelutevepanenemumori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2986/3323/files/features_of_bhakti_movement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/rejolodonewema.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_off00007244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7244 5352 bytes
SHA-256: dfacf24949608b4aaeab96946d1c4389f4b115abbf9fc6794e1dbfb72542c354
font_01_sfnt_off0000844e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x844E 10352 bytes
SHA-256: ffc4d3bfc4b790f8b17da492d230c9a47f5bdcc0f24f34fd567ad7df6b7e5f5e