Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 770be7b00fecc35a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1922577536659ed06d16b8f4cef9716e SHA-1: bc6b79f83f4df9b8caca2dfe6d0fbe21e567fe19 SHA-256: 770be7b00fecc35ae06beaad15512bde8f676503b2d0d088743ec037b0a20892
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains lures related to financial documents and payment redirection, indicating a business-email-compromise or phishing attempt. It embeds a link to a redirector URL, `https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=trading+profit+and+loss+account+and+balance+sheet+in+excel+format+download`, which is flagged as malicious. The document also contains a large number of links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious file.

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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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/wix?keyword=trading+profit+and+loss+account+and+balance+sheet+in+excel+format+download In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c339c8983be644e3b4c99bf180b96e90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e10ee5f6e76d49589f79dae644af953f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e14af3858e1a4c8395955d88307a7e7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c268c_ea3abf69f28447bcbd3141d18b3d5cbe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_79fbed8e88f841b5b2e4e9c0d2893b1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c0b427_604bb6bab67c4430b8f81150fb5aa2d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cfa91a_9c0116c22bac44eaac1e4a11062a3c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_cac0b4aa7b714931ba34db348e30cb27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/429b25_f505a818416f4c1896ec562b642f8d26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_559cca73dbc64009a3b9c274f760ed99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2a34f99e45c4631a1cac9d382272220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_453f451ebe9d416984e59a2a8192462a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_abaaf92dad084aedaa7767e2cc2e4d48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee6770_44b128acdc9649bea9aaea96d6785859.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_off00019071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19071 5820 bytes
SHA-256: 101c30bee81a96d90ff52b62943a89940a39916cd2d8f27c5da3683e1d794799
font_01_sfnt_off0001a416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A416 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4dd526560abe5c235b775e66ca4c9a807ab97d9b3550fe1a9aa56335cd2d4a