Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42a08213609f941…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 06:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 81bf1f4bdcb509ef866bb9449906d719 SHA-1: c5ca177bcc1202f02b0d3635578c5e76efe99914 SHA-256: a42a08213609f941f780fd2ece7d115f962bf6ea2923b9e411a80b7aab13160f
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or hosting. The document body also contains a callback lure, suggesting a potential tech-support scam or phishing attempt. The primary attack vector appears to be a malicious link embedded within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=chenoa+income+guidelines In PDF document text
    • http://files.peldongaming.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775730/famutumatujifope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.27andoak.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163683/e8feccf6bae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.makeupandtanningbycassie.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969370/8ce16ee60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dartsdownunder180.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384301/1535730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugagexut.juliepavlock.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/4879319.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/1/0438/1035/7405/files/filub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20597849085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/clinical_nutrition_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/adenosina_trifosfato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1987/5998/files/fiwaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5602/9093/files/92345742439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8910/0957/files/ritil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2104/files/ranigajizekekibodiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3337/9484/files/sql_server_tutorial_for_beginners_with_examples.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_off00005edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDB 5160 bytes
SHA-256: f319882b5f0d81db77b5c7a4366428378129bb00c9344822a78fbc6d854b0b52
font_01_sfnt_off00007035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7035 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6e8e5e2e301612459e8e1a25452c26010620fad7bcba4459a46656c7d7a5c32b