Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a78c0c360bca863e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 18:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1ba70e0d48d859247aedfb0eda5ea628 SHA-1: 4f2abc204f025886b95f4fdd1f9869bf8e4b9ea1 SHA-256: a78c0c360bca863e59cd573379100f9368774c50a7ae37790c176576856cd89f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lure the user into downloading further malware. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase, reinforcing the social engineering aspect of the attack. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

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=developing+the+public+relations+campaign+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stlouiscancercare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383661/faliwaxewafavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.embroideryequipment.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379085/xovema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.popiconsblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398059/sazuneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southwestiowadentalassociates.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/bd0ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.communiteabooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164446/7550941.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/1/0429/0704/1959/files/wiganifobadeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/futisupefelifenowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6510/6847/files/vegexerebupuvasitolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3341/files/introduction_to_biophysics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3037/1739/files/61238818728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3382/9277/files/porikesusopugatorajulore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/2417805709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8787/2671/files/don_juan_lord_byron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6965/3663/files/lazijet.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_off0000834d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x834D 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6e2bc5da2ad0911943057a3d813b57beb2a6e51a685e478795353682adb0b9
font_01_sfnt_off000096cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96CF 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 4febbe63647b99545ebeb53fe25d76c0bbd308f6586bb9619f932d02acf5e8b4

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