Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3b4ed619edd38b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:22:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1a63b9ec6aab9da1d81f96564098e21 SHA-1: 7c10fde86d52d6aeeb7e362c542436aba5c3afe3 SHA-256: aa3b4ed619edd38ba6cf48207b328c2676dc6e2707561220b2ec754c064f1335
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to salary claims and includes a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', which is likely the primary malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy to deliver a payload or phish credentials.

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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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=authorization+letter+to+claim+salary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.winnoenergy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/4222490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountbarkerstrathcatholic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407796/javatuposoxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.astorialogisticsgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483343/kopuxov.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/1/0430/1075/2663/files/discord_clear_messages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3151/8622/files/defofiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/asbabun_nuzul_al.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xiguxalenagidofivixonagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5308/8921/files/potasiviwowune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6309/9040/files/2234021512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/faxegereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9661/2768/files/lufatakekejefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2734/8121/files/business_statistics_in_practice_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3974/files/74758889875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24501063531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6992/1688/files/ridep.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
🗂 Part of campaign: astorialogisticsgroup.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB53 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 4aba2bb845853324476be69e5ed1bf4ff35002942389efac2b843cac1129f0e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c54e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC54E 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 5347401c32d1075b138484e78b2a29f8f4f641f10b89afec52a50f1a291cbfc9
font_02_sfnt_off0000d809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD809 10240 bytes
SHA-256: f0bb0b74087691515a9f3ffb839a955618747c2dfb295a84f43ede2e30b84df0