Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 852a59eea60aa9d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c44da75c2a04838ec7a221040933216a SHA-1: f1da7a65f37de726a7f0fe17a43738b41ecb23f6 SHA-256: 852a59eea60aa9d1c38cbecbced92e03a90c08c6f4eb36c139a578bc49733dbe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified by the 'ttraff.cc' domain. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, masquerading as a novel PDF to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links further supports a malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=barrister+parvateesam+telugu+novel+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.l2progamers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383821/nutuwefetez-fobib-tozomujirapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebrowniecottage.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871909/zuvakexukamufokileja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davidsmassey.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813510/10295b144a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8165/4691/files/31447966925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2830/8387/files/92928035910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3933/2251/files/adp_check_stub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3077/2901/files/62069671191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8168/files/givovewijaxumiwogodoxelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7707/4077/files/journal_ledger_and_cash_book_mcqs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/xiperobidafelitimoterove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6473/files/tcs_aptitude_questions_answers_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1597/files/wuxamimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/93518869083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/gikazajukotutesede.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B39 5352 bytes
SHA-256: eedc8f73ee9125ac296946bcdcb7e738356d63c05f937df8018fc01acf73feb3
font_01_sfnt_off00006d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5D 4212 bytes
SHA-256: 6dfc61aa39a7c1539542734dd93a80cfa8b32277a51ca314be083cec595e7ae6
font_02_sfnt_off00007d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D21 15056 bytes
SHA-256: ed025ead6a7d19e4a24e3c8fb518478282be796a0ae131d4469398f23b47aef3
font_03_sfnt_off0000ab8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB8B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71