Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 736253bfee147764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 571717d37df6518164f479cbdbae7b35 SHA-1: f1ab2e90b51bed10414ceaa14cddaafaf37cdb2c SHA-256: 736253bfee147764f0fc6df12fd1d03016e5d97769b86a2655b66463241145c6
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com, disguised as a UAE ID card registration form. It also features a large number of external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=uae+id+card+registration+form In PDF document text
    • http://fodarog.celltheon.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/6848498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davesmithrants.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740378/jivodilodiloraf_verofewotek_sebunudelebuni_nekafiritin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9419/6902/files/bedford_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kazapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8827/2805/files/carnatic_music_varnam_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1275/1523/files/childrens_cardigan_knitting_patterns_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6910/4540/files/151284336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/bugifemagadikonotiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8850/3203/files/surenizewotabovitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1245/files/rozarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2421/1354/files/104775570.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD7 5088 bytes
SHA-256: fd5180a5077d67a416ebe9286376ef7337b9b9b97da3f36e5e029c9660ef5286
font_01_sfnt_off00007106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7106 13420 bytes
SHA-256: e6e6dbc473852ffead714d365da8ad2dd443bc4a9797ca1057abf4e723d1466b
font_02_sfnt_off00009b5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B5C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34