Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a07b3566130daab1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:05:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 181220b17e7554d64fd3c5af9fed385f SHA-1: c92b6fb1947a9bb40eca0742ed5c67c2b16fcf22 SHA-256: a07b3566130daab15c1c490fbaa2281d2e2fe0340a5f18a1321869d245c1938b
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure for free software (Charles proxy) which, when clicked, redirects to a malicious URL. The document also functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is ttraff.cc, which is flagged as a redirector to malicious infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and references to the lure.

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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=charles+proxy+3.+3.+1+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.dukeoptilab.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969553/towewikumiji_xosobe_xatuzewazir_kufitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obviousvolcano.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874300/tosofitusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.custom-compositions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/daparuwa.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/1/0435/9880/7202/files/731407993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6658/9335/files/ncoa_course_15_set_b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8215/3112/files/lozivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4994/3202/files/56906637956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9408/8611/files/44122616133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7333/9559/files/business_plan_format_for_restaurant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9226/2560/files/relikebenolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1951/6579/files/star_wars_imperial_march_sheet_music_trombone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6820/3942/files/calculus_volume_2_narayanan_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1123/4199/files/accident_and_emergency_radiology_a_survival_guide.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000692c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692C 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6502e04658d985b37ed967139d4b1bb7136c1c8ff06868e6b64c17630b7d50
font_01_sfnt_off000073af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AF 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d7d62ee01b97a8b527193c69ece5151c86ec1427becdcdd5f156269e4deaf31
font_02_sfnt_off000085cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85CC 10316 bytes
SHA-256: c5b1c2ea9a35cc8f87400dc4ff17ac5ce88447f2c9444fb1dab34a43f773bd46
font_03_sfnt_off0000a945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA945 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 7021aa4f129058994e5f4a49797ae2bd2b844c302d6e5650f7ffaa6fcc4017a8