Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64ec0c6e4b819b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 12:26:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3c1e78dd7f97de16dcc92d76846bf82 SHA-1: 14478e6021c3226d48163526d97b68ba22df551f SHA-256: 64ec0c6e4b819b1e8fd017b8798b08a974ae770d1e167920927a02943ff23e35
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc). This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely to trick users into downloading further malware or visiting malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence further support this assessment.

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=marksheet+format+in+excel+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.robertsfamilygenerations.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/f24e537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obellahome.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858975/3864548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.womenwhowandertexas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483027/e2be0c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rtprogram.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381605/7952014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.selfascensionstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383323/da13715e981.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/1/0428/9550/7615/files/62848002197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0079/1191/files/netidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7517/3528/files/zimabujujubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/nazopopuzolelunaginimoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6686/0455/files/60290375968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/sekanugikagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2277/6480/files/447386622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5308/0985/files/nomanabegorizebolawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6586/files/64864893636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8689/5512/files/xejukokajoviniras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8579/8301/files/13273266225.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_off0000773e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773E 5320 bytes
SHA-256: c7c809c30b5a613db686b34a951312382684a32852c2158c3d19ff2d3d800890
font_01_sfnt_off00008930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8930 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 2f35f80cfb413d84f897cfd9ec00a9343f581fb0249c4c5a153ae2f229777ebd