Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdd58f220dfb96ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d2e4c43d8e867cea7b45d49f28224f78 SHA-1: 7c89087ad87977200dcbfa3f16396d3467ba9a1a SHA-256: bdd58f220dfb96edf1590d205bd59ebcf60e8abe5c3bd2b2325c4070e92c8d7e
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm and a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.com', indicating a malicious redirection attempt. The document also exhibits characteristics of a password archive lure and a recovery secret request, suggesting a social engineering tactic to obtain sensitive information or facilitate further compromise. The embedded URLs, particularly the one pointing to 'ttraff.com', are the primary indicators of malicious intent, likely serving as a gateway to phishing or malware distribution sites.

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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=aws+codedeploy+cloudformation+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.cleggenglish.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406149/576757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jackiehelderdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/mabiwezija-netefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mystarsandstripes.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/gugimirovomuk-fawilizifajuf-nejaviditaxina-rapezadato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chantaljean-pierre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/3078321.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/1/0437/6195/9069/files/unity_c_player_movement_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0310/1863/files/bugs_bunny_barber_of_seville.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9503/8877/files/85599153147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3444/1885/files/suwejatoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7268/files/62638860782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7929/3338/files/givupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/15510802396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9679/1456/files/nios_admission_form_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4367/6582/files/18511986644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4665/files/lududenox.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAA 5484 bytes
SHA-256: f8916db8f0f058f6a87b1dab539383c78aec7c9a0e5c02004efd064024440939
font_01_sfnt_off00008049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8049 10472 bytes
SHA-256: aa2a20a354628a4a8dde7ec24fd90f9acad7d5f2aac47d4036f8eaf05ff70c08