Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2e0043e18a46271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 08:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c2919a24260c04e0f659e6f9ac75f35 SHA-1: 2d4de780ae4e3a5a5c8115b3fa039fc2a7f13232 SHA-256: a2e0043e18a46271e6558bf4efd88c823014ff040cb7b3e1a3772986764ff0d9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button, aiming to lure users to a malicious site. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com.

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=dfdl+vietnam+investment+guide In PDF document text
    • http://nemezexa.morganhomesliving.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/vozonuwiwafagujute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eileenenwrighthodgetts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483445/nevorex.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/1/0433/3892/4181/files/jonuwemuruxededu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9485/2252/files/memoria_descriptiva_estructuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0160/9366/files/28732792268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3151/7592/files/20100083315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4156/8421/files/swot_analysis_in_marathi_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4274/3207/files/kufakifobabine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7886/0454/files/26428829554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57790570823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6309/6984/files/7130808999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2250/8447/files/28842691543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0833/4744/files/tatilugeporalavinobosolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7962/2040/files/92657725638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8588/9689/files/88865801600.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

Related samples 4

Ranked by shared artifacts, heuristics, extracted URLs, CVEs, and signatures.

Full JSON: related samples API

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005eec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EEC 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7dae251e542367f851c3abf97622ec23091315dc3780b00c894223bd44d6ac
font_01_sfnt_off00007091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7091 8936 bytes
SHA-256: 3c301dde4821d2665f20533731bfc7b7115300aa70d6bac27b714920cd7c2c7e

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.