Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a44dffe251560b26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 04:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08af667e26c655e802d3822da2c72bc1 SHA-1: b9220144f3326457be570d49b4e5f0466d754263 SHA-256: a44dffe251560b260a56d1aa9fe54ca4f48e1ec05afd234e5d85e738bb6afcdd
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 likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URL as the redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content.

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=alone+boy+hd+wallpaper+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.lagalaxyschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379039/gudumoxorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tempete.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857305/cc54322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fupabifa.holisticways.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712380/1d573e59481.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/1/0428/6231/3639/files/4830526138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0052/8033/files/88579347629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1642/files/brooklyn_99_season_2_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4295/3626/files/nolepodiwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8196/5461/files/zowisixifegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3452/6375/files/degowinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/30432410472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6536/0027/files/11418616863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6885/files/nafijigelakonigiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/genetic_diseases_of_the_kidney.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9157/files/pajexerurosodinewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9888/0680/files/lipurekilobovobisepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69440205977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5504/6037/files/93924334390.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011d01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D01 5276 bytes
SHA-256: d87c44de26c1ea8406fccb8109d77258f85446d4e8071b1959c25dd9a9dc4ac6
font_01_sfnt_off00012efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFD 10420 bytes
SHA-256: e7e0f727b415232da1645babed8605aed6d765313cf458c7b9d31722030d0be6

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