Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2595fd4edb44064…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:02:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: caa8b823705397e3b4860e8317ab76b0 SHA-1: 361325fd22dff566fdb593d3ef5fb6a234b619b5 SHA-256: a2595fd4edb440641bedebfd5f406be98b5c6e2604700ec90344cbeb05975f72
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com' which is associated with a lure for 'az vehicle registration renewal form'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the true malicious destination. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' and 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further support a phishing or scam pretext.

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.com/pify?keyword=az+vehicle+registration+renewal+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.carryyoursunshine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453294/veruxovu_latasalatifo_basokimiwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimovixon.annaephoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856516/gebofunimuke_garudeja_bexafugoviwal_zumurasusezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deltabassclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438784/mubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipuraref.glenfieldmethodistchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/tuzeruxevevebelade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newenglandcockers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379820/bixosujotoza.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/1/0431/7095/5424/files/job_interview_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7967/7590/files/3ds_title_keys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3092/0871/files/32089243746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2629/8533/files/emulator_for_pc_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6712/9504/files/45198916005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8250/6647/files/88145861715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1678/8900/files/vuwazobevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5976/4634/files/38019375543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4437/5450/files/wapelujimazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8629/9815/files/chemistry_matters_2nd_edition_textbook_answers_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/wojikelakipigusaraxexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6282/0005/files/mebibixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6373/6485/files/10483236441.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_off0000b13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13A 5488 bytes
SHA-256: e06d2a6f33a8400becef11dc5cef1b2ce25fd849cf367e7ce4047a0412833283
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D5 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 28a6ae7bb5ac343f1b4b2f7add749fb5f42153cf128a1c6cd5a0086fc3398aa0