Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dda22b946731e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 04:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dbfe8e454b52046a7213b8f756ed3710 SHA-1: 5c90b1d6d9ef6787c020dcc669f57fb40198b7eb SHA-256: 5dda22b946731e11a631edf81cbd9bc0bea92cf4fddfe291140fefc72ba88a07
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains a lure for a remote support scam, instructing the user to install or connect with remote-support tools. It also features a link farm with numerous PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of exploitation.

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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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=epsxe+2.+0.+5+bios In PDF document text
    • http://files.juliacollar.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696465/nizosolabilole_bajapex_makajunafiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bodicures.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681836/181b94af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stjohnsstafford.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379194/33e47d548a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cbd-iai.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607095/wufoguxiv-xafizarifujapil.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/1/0431/7950/7870/files/54050973421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7079/9516/files/12990062063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4543/7083/files/rotazawuwakapapule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8145/0147/files/xokaridodofagawelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/gazolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9071/4532/files/34573119218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7117/5846/files/nufiwabulowuzikolimebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8502/8758/files/kanavedemalaforogexavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8049/8852/files/14836351080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4647/5678/files/9662692587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2434/1400/files/55945004693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4500/1115/files/5209618967.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_off00006433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6433 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 90411464a97332951f8819608612e4a4233a8ad52199cfdf195c420c19d73888
font_01_sfnt_off0000759c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759C 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 6987b8d11cf295af991452ff2c1616dae8461004ac0cabf3f907e30f9aaa786b