Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 911a862f30486e60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 09:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9aefa3d9872933128845a1042c7ba4a SHA-1: b9d776651371e4cbea5c71574147828f3870fdb1 SHA-256: 911a862f30486e6045594f95e821743c729cf2f72bbe89c2c3f1158c97f6fb16
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'simple past tense exercises' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of tricking the user into clicking the malicious link.

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=simple+past+tense+exercises+pdf+with+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.hmbudgetravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380343/8620543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.konnektable.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438056/9649213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.somosfamiliavalle.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/nepirixoxilid_nojekowimomiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockthecatspa.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437619/vuwudexuj.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/1/0428/4055/5676/files/7704426496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2470/9794/files/abecedario_mayusculas_y_minusculas_para_imprimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3121/5780/files/fowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9048/5150/files/woviwazufurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2119/files/48664668634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8752/8103/files/ruwuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9735/7472/files/ps3_controller_driver_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6275/4461/files/paragon_partition_manager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8724/1119/files/revabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/certainteed_flintlastic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3338/7423/files/crop_image_in_inkscape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5016/2581/files/7401351099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6730/2295/files/pdfbox_java_api_documentation.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_off00004f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F07 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 123e9df5ec0404484b90340b10992c8849e581a8c5ca4ac0034b57da84d176a3
font_01_sfnt_off00006231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6231 10020 bytes
SHA-256: e8fb1acb58b3c85908df557180e5bd00efb4dd3692ffc2203c16c3e925d0da9c