Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96082e9abcd77b63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 051a1c3e469d120f3ddc38a02de8f9b5 SHA-1: 574b7b253014e61f7da9182b4bef1f71e32e7e06 SHA-256: 96082e9abcd77b6354d95e8a247fea027ad2cebd54c7032f734d0c2043ad5b94
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used in conjunction with the lure of an 'Aetna provider appeal form'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead the user to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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=aetna+provider+appeal+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wonesasit.jorricmatthews.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/c8e55b1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vazuduk.continentaldrifter.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/808507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wolvesdenranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411474/neneritowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefodijov.vigocountyemergencycommunications.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/makodaxuzibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northidahoblaze.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/ronazepezaxuxa-womonegiba.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/1/0439/2094/9403/files/anemia_por_deficiencia_de_vitamina_b12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6955/5356/files/business_communication_process_and_product.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/jafidowozorukizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6296/5912/files/fekovazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/marerumovodulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8501/1871/files/tipemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9544/0040/files/arginina_akg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7693/7880/files/inherited_disorders_of_bilirubin_metabolism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4939/4080/files/76878728696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1306/3327/files/25966281820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0152/0023/files/algebras_rings_and_modules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2306/4488/files/3312614922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2568/files/xuzekusumafasasipigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/tebaturixolusiwumojokuka.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_off000069cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69CD 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 8679931d7ee173cc788b5db53227bb8cdfe7cfa667b857ebd0339c880d7f3c50
font_01_sfnt_off00007af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF1 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 5e64817ce32245238256e9a2bcfa46c35caa514b51af9a4029f7521fd2be5f7c