Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8f2b4c86b1972ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 66b3cd1d06391b5af061c264afffe1d3 SHA-1: 3da4db9d72d767faab8f8d1387335478a1638f42 SHA-256: a8f2b4c86b1972ca5305a420c8d40a51df64c60222dc69bc5ec8feb13bd54bc8
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'sbi cheque deposit slip excel format' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links further indicates a link farm SEO tactic to attract victims. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=sbi+cheque+deposit+slip+excel+format.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=sbi+cheque+deposit+slip+excel+format In PDF document text
    • http://files.garryportugal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775707/1344882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thequirkyquiller.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398605/powibibof-puzalexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.natsumisawada.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407029/sulegosew-vesin-nezupid-kolepuluset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.williamsranchdoodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454501/141f4.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/1/0434/5790/4792/files/17806283316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0557/4309/files/diwosama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8558/4801/files/10610598028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5921/6533/files/wujaxexuvenusaxudupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9457/1163/files/genetic_mutation_pogil_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9818/3582/files/94910511321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3653/3151/files/20413872051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5764/files/black_wallpaper_1920x1080_hd.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_off00008c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C1B 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off00009616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9616 5832 bytes
SHA-256: 1e9781d368bcfb98ded3c6981b6a515f0f9d0d394127d854b5b12c21675e896d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9BE 10120 bytes
SHA-256: b54e77a6f50823bdcf35a7eebf6824b703bb768dfbf3aae45bea4e21d01958e6
font_03_sfnt_off0000cca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA3 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 5d72d630640305d452d914085fd6c65e0d8125198bed8028c282d44fd0327be8