Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944c188d4d427656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 04:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6512b41f6149e52d1b539e1b9bf3dd44 SHA-1: 7fd9d9281fbc73bce0f89ee42e835a71703bdb54 SHA-256: 944c188d4d42765653390c68de4ba2aba2563c6fff7f693b00e31a690ded692e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several other PDF URLs, some of which are hosted on suspicious domains. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=english+english+tamil+dictionary+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.lowerarkplanjm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775413/5c0d2e2c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lwcmusic.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398022/wozijapusup_vijabotumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nativetales.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775942/b90bae542e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.issosf.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813768/gepisefuwen_dilugipiruwa_nopotum.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/1/0435/2468/5975/files/muwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6380/3040/files/pakulobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2737/3981/files/61882761837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3214/9148/files/76846859549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3263/0680/files/94754024821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4748/3552/files/buximijijutewazamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1548/8163/files/totapivoxujivezufuxesawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78476378890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doworefobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0177/3212/files/baldor_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2882/4742/files/calendario_sep_2020_y_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/52209678420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6871/1321/files/meek_mill_mp3_download_skull.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/nebivigibiza.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_off000058b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58B4 5720 bytes
SHA-256: 2a5b4846757a8bd66e37a2e76b255e0f9d8b7c2b585632e3e4e0185ce71d1961
font_01_sfnt_off00006c0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C0F 10380 bytes
SHA-256: c1c38002eac648326f3b49489c78969a884e92abf37197dd5da7747238653748