Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96646369f726972b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:53:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ec9b6c881fc466d3dd48d9ba07506051 SHA-1: 6d31e5800b74f6c6d5a829d7622022d37e6b1b6a SHA-256: 96646369f726972b671c31cf2bcc34b186025062e6d52616f6c8f75b2b9386b6
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.cc. The document body, though malformed, contains the title 'Can t hurt me by david goggins pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download an ebook. The presence of numerous links and the redirection to a malicious domain indicates a phishing or content-farming attack designed to lead users to harmful sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • 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=can+t+hurt+me+by+david+goggins+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.veganfoodiefestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453267/5280789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glitzync.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872238/vuvujenudi_rezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.immanuelchildrensfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/3188391.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/1/0428/0595/2671/files/88756328636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/3976/3101/files/accounting_standard_26_icai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0129/8589/files/rig_veda_in_tamil_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4983/4901/files/apache_poi_export_docx_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2635/8173/files/remebowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/bivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/6195/4971/files/boost._asio_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/wumuronozoletavorusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9010/7815/files/hello_kitty_salon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3075/8054/files/38527808759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3314/8062/files/hernia_de_disco_diagnostico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0326/3650/files/unity_underwater_effect.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000612e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x612E 4244 bytes
SHA-256: 3b22a84724f62413819150398857a0b3959966ae519f7584f7825e04f4eb4cde
font_01_sfnt_off00007013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7013 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 17241559d3062ea4a070fe41497b625545a9f3d672d91ca24e8e571e4014020d
font_02_sfnt_off00008317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8317 10112 bytes
SHA-256: fdfa7b67a5ec6e2607a57eb71f5be6725af2af08fcc13b7402b4714169cde39e