Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa35f8149cca2c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:59:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5129264f42bcb4ee38d7042f26274626 SHA-1: 2ff6f16828807b5d4adb5c99d61df1b6914bae92 SHA-256: aa35f8149cca2c55d8ee0e3c461762ccfdd330a0c6c8ae4668d65241b941a809
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was identified as malicious due to the presence of a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. Additionally, the document contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or a mechanism for distributing further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact lure.

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/wix?keyword=la+metamorfosis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_04c499fd50b840d28c82dda3f62e50f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d775a9_2126662c142644fd99c104a5fa6ba108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_375c03069b3d4bc0bc11542149eb8ceb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5de1df_18522d91206e40c8b35c2239e1d74ac5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0886/8008/files/all_video_audio_converter_pro_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0487/9271/files/8643424148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7586/1656/files/75837284173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3201/9097/files/rumuxamowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1952/files/air_cadets_uniform_shoes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8981/3909/files/zeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8090/files/regebugaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3698/2952/files/22395665335.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_off0000702c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x702C 5096 bytes
SHA-256: fa5b1a22edb0d37421a97d4510c6054709c275efd056414be3660b760172bc7a
font_01_sfnt_off00008168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8168 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 62752b9239962d578d262d548b516976941d14ff6948c7e1f7443c188cfebdfa

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