Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0532895dae11e30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 590f48517471a2efacaebbaaf091b996 SHA-1: fcf4d6f21b73824c0c7bd226bb8bab39b7704d53 SHA-256: c0532895dae11e3051b5b820ba51800db0ab12ce1eb14b8d336ffd00d3e77739
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content. It embeds numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.com', which is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=video+from+facebook+add+on+chrome', reinforcing the lure. The presence of a link farm and a redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a compromised site.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=video+from+facebook+add+on+chrome In PDF document text
    • http://files.loyalwillcaninehydrotherapycentre.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437074/pejegedes_revodapopateru_gakano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clairemcgee.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856122/xuregevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasonbraun.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/210e36.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/1/0434/7196/2269/files/bielactwo_wrodzone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7614/files/24366794670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3191/9765/files/levibibevepeguvuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/dafevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/6881103834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8982/9800/files/19374783905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/69029018054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5063/8241/files/rifesovifabibubutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0083/7782/files/88432733966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3882/6908/files/datoginowetimigadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3366/4420/files/vozapanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9784/1054/files/rinejevuvazoxazunugawuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/economic_botany.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_off0000639b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x639B 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0ab6d624aabecde1b39d4e386fb7e8c27f8f4c0ef2dc71cb8b3b64688f3fce
font_01_sfnt_off00007530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7530 9832 bytes
SHA-256: d94c17ec04d9d595139e4c5adada667f135a797f38beaacb7b8b22320423910f