Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c43e0a2ee2d5d51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 15:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3be3932cdd87f025eefa8b81b4604963 SHA-1: b8b6146c2387e9a61b8b431e3135e8718a7a8f5a SHA-256: 6c43e0a2ee2d5d516726187efa139fb5b866cea212ecd4d8678c0e3127e2d2de
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains multiple links to a known redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text referencing a 'Brinks digital deadbolt user manual' and a URL pointing to the same redirector, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious destination.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=brinks+digital+deadbolt+user+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.helping-sa.co.za/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482946/5181321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ksdsscience.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/monakanewoxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morrowtimes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384374/xovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brunstaneproductions.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379295/bubazuzijedufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artlynchactingcoach.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380868/tagaxe.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/1/0431/0240/4769/files/87651157635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8589/7627/files/67560040524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63537272249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3021/6855/files/zizaboweletatixopuxewebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0809/7445/files/lowegagevapuwojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0595/8565/files/pifozajegiwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2012/3293/files/83497124979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/jixitorosazuzadobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/47582430912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9427/0371/files/punubixelulufuwe.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_off0000847c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x847C 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 81663da17046f7a76a201fd14c76054c33426aa2825b57b225be4b2d029c8bdf
font_01_sfnt_off000096c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96C4 13224 bytes
SHA-256: ad7ba8f3813557e06677fea8bba0c748737745ac7ee934cd5bf75bfe8e367d5a