Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d5c5f830f855e57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 02:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01cf5a025b39e0915f951bcf3d000d02 SHA-1: e93e71fd2fc50d63a3af754ed628c41e71fe7c20 SHA-256: 9d5c5f830f855e576224a55d8d9379570b0c46e5b9afe940f52047f7bfa5487b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is used in conjunction with a lure related to a nursing entrance exam. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=rajasthan+bsc+nursing+entrance+exam+form+date In PDF document text
    • http://files.wonderful-marocco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681836/nexujuwilevuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3074/8055/files/verbe_etre_avoir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1724/8672/files/loturokazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8016/3232/files/tratamiento_de_anemia_en_embarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5407/9904/files/kumon_answer_book_level_h_math.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7677/9174/files/examples_of_powerpoint_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4363/5879/files/mercruiser_serial_number_lookup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1726/3510/files/belt_driven_starter_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2908/6876/files/85798203189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9204/2137/files/83435178938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6101/0842/files/vanakosutokonovaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2669/2761/files/business_presentation_templates_ppt_free.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A8D 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 01a86d9b411d6d5bac8504b93ce2bc5b7ea3bfaafd40d023225068107f12b9b5
font_01_sfnt_off00007d56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D56 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2862a08ce753f5619cc1a0bcfc77fa0b405a65df0cb7afd8e31f45b0cb1c9a
font_02_sfnt_off0000a116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA116 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6
font_03_sfnt_off0000b62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB62D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
font_04_sfnt_off0000c42d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC42D 4732 bytes
SHA-256: 307551fb25c41906a91750d1b7998c86dcc8ff5a2ed6275f84d763ea8b38ee7b