Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c054d615c27f5c16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a7732baa0f5c4f04a7833b048742fcb2 SHA-1: 570228e60a4b8e1fac82633fc97f58e8798250b9 SHA-256: c054d615c27f5c1607531bf14b9b050adf98ff9547146798c367f7bb0bc9f4d9
250 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically `ttraff.com`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure related to 'accounting questions and answers' and a 'download button', suggesting a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to manipulate search results for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.com/pify?keyword=accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+free+download.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.collaboratoryshows.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740553/9991933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canterburynuts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874213/zalepu_xumamasepo_jenapolij_nelawovude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aceachieversourlearninghub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164273/burufowu-wunexu-vababosatoj.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/1/0432/2574/3521/files/52853497606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/64284856455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92283418618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9132/9173/files/berutokulirurafelovuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8049/9879/files/rukuregewibunutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9509/5464/files/official_certified_ethical_hacker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/pogivifaxufiwalonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3493/files/75602316034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7817/9221/files/57283378431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8918/9272/files/juzewawojatuwapotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/jowedoniwagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2102/files/agatha_christie.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_off0000e7d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D2 5528 bytes
SHA-256: e1b38c2e6955748f69a634cf398b8a28427d5a2d4dc10a0562ab69845e7fc5da
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABF 10836 bytes
SHA-256: a57a1e9bd8a95f92c06fadea136d809be883de778b8bebd434ff9411aae15776