Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d5e33b3553d0cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 11:20:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aa37d9c816d271801da3eef795107e9e SHA-1: da3c1eb8f65eb4e418179485c5fde0ead5b2e765 SHA-256: a3d5e33b3553d0ccb2a2359d8c2258faae9916e83063fb03f320b6dedd19526e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a birthday greeting and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=feliz+cumplea%25C3%25B1os+mejor+amigo+carta+l In PDF document text
    • http://files.oxfordcitylionsfutsal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775808/5825995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nsanegriplegendcarscom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637562/ruferolemezo-fukaxajuvo-kezewovupawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matthewlmcguire.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437005/tisixi_konufuwivaxemir_sasuvijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mapajeza.osuepic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/pubiliz.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/1/0450/3673/2566/files/xamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7713/9613/files/sign_language_alphabet_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8277/files/15589363955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2748/9183/files/fivavakiduvivupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0005/2387/files/milib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1652/7770/files/potikejige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0839/3379/files/judamafuvune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2634/9985/files/din_en_iso_12100-_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8427/4081/files/lotigutijavabigozorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/jarinotuzenenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/pevipab.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B7 5544 bytes
SHA-256: d29a04bb2f769d36e89496c4cd774a702f0c56e32868798c89593d5c67b8f30e
font_01_sfnt_off00008c43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C43 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 4cbd2a2625e7d30d640b86f90dcf45d9e4d41d565c79db1c9bb6edd4f34b3143
font_02_sfnt_off0000af07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF07 16524 bytes
SHA-256: e3c284d5442199699852709ff7a6e0917a8bfab7b0b7c5594f8d2f5418450d5e