Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a274d5593aea1f6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 23:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9c7a5d9d07453bde7589b840623f953c SHA-1: c7b3bed4898ed5f15d1265dc3f21e6917b39e3b0 SHA-256: a274d5593aea1f6c64bcb16d12346450af969a7143e6c0fdc6729472cf38a9c6
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a link farm, indicating an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=scout+uniform+badges+scotland, which likely leads to further malicious content or malware download. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient for this assessment.

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.com/pify?keyword=scout+uniform+badges+scotland In PDF document text
    • http://files.nicreconciling.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408930/visexejike_wusuwatuvef_wodux_jalonemoje.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3331/1904/files/jawupefozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3444/2908/files/urochordata_e_cephalochordata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2147/5738/files/61407566975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5944/5914/files/202081334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9354/files/nijuvepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0740/9308/files/coin_grading_photos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/75111852507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4525/files/72817121417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6249/3345/files/51574673570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6083/6005/files/budap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/xizijola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1584/4519/files/14878258246.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CE5 5464 bytes
SHA-256: e863834aadb01703f323f11326468573edf61c6b7f1bf84d2321b7870775be70
font_01_sfnt_off00006f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F4B 10120 bytes
SHA-256: c2b1cbf1221d23cb6ee449718daf3238032f76ef1f1240fa3cad5d3254b364de
font_02_sfnt_off000091f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91F6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176

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