Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53044c72c8c17c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:07:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c7badb83298c0bb252c334c41024a25c SHA-1: 56ae3e4eaa9bc3f06046d657136c13754b89a833 SHA-256: a53044c72c8c17c9f8f60add289d33cd93d9459ffc7bf4e974de22dcf6844f4c
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into interacting with malicious content or services.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/wix?keyword=fay+classic+conveyancing In 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/1/0451/6528/1429/files/anatomy_of_the_heart_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0467/9768/4885/files/deguxujenebijekawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/sinuzimowefezubiveferol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6258/2693/files/dobemiwodezepekuxapokuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7368/3112/files/bagels_and_beans_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6295/files/133479106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/5514385276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0836/8545/files/49547901712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6012/5080/files/jasedimimekese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3490/1671/files/rixajetatada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6464/0159/files/45989128323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0944/1953/files/42129738846.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001868c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1868C 4696 bytes
SHA-256: 044833bf7b266f2139ca84443a167db44a9748c9f3614f5343fa050256602538
font_01_sfnt_off00019694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19694 10872 bytes
SHA-256: addc1b145a59f099ec1ffde1dc8bf05eec78dbb7229dd3a2d5c0f5c3eb0c907f
font_02_sfnt_off0001bab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BAB9 16344 bytes
SHA-256: f3b95f1269985bafc3dfb9b5b35e76df8a4d57039a143c013aed99c7cf3a4a89
font_03_sfnt_off0001d032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D032 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34