Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c6c359a5344b363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 08:26:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 560b3a7386e9b40c53d7340b77ed3e5b SHA-1: 3fd07966eb3db728e1f3c7a06cdc2b57a52fc2e7 SHA-256: 9c6c359a5344b3630072c8ed9bf97b16674e473c3105a91d340ff192c3946bcf
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aiag+fmea+template', indicating a lure related to an 'aiag fmea template'. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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=aiag+fmea+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.hummingbirdmodeltrains.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/7630716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yidneyrocks.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482919/pokagagije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jwphotogallery.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775633/9056463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.randlcarbroker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406435/bilegasuwamuj.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/1/0440/2659/3445/files/junuzeburewoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68905528383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/96731714298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7870/3521/files/walmart_cake_order.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6193/5261/files/84819832540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0453/2648/files/zebejijigubukilijavezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9158/2357/files/3._4_biogeochemical_cycles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9573/6988/files/beyond_compare_git.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4003/8302/files/systematic_investment_plan_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/kabudefikitezofivojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9283/9317/files/automatic_watch_parts_diagram.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_off00006068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6068 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 14d0dffe41ce7ced882f16cfbf6e2ba809cea00d6cbd8d8738222824abedc8b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000712b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712B 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 24a430dace8acbb32bce7eac706f2e03ec00f24b629a8defd81211988d23f973