Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c42113a529e23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1fa110df25aba8081997697ea6d1972 SHA-1: 0aee291c6ecf21d1c5d0c9ce1d17150f4dadf145 SHA-256: c0c42113a529e23e099ded520bddbede5657d9c201fffd2e55a0ed2d17e22594
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector hosted on 'ttraff.com' which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a game and the malicious URL. The presence of a link farm and the advance-fee scam lure heuristic strongly suggest this document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely for financial gain or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.com/pify?keyword=chip+and+dale+2+game+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.tarotevolution.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302859/3683981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.belindagates.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696465/8824258.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/1/0432/5857/7046/files/jaleluzuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/87_dodge_ram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/legujunegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9704/7447/files/acrobat_reader_dc_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7426/3963/files/66004901124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7491/files/email_writing_skills_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54341666742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA15F 3660 bytes
SHA-256: a3959a10c9c0e132567ccba7b673083529dedb501dc449b3590f1658af062322
font_01_sfnt_off0000ae57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE57 5200 bytes
SHA-256: ae9904395576eddc488f41d44054697f49cdcd2b769b12f765b38e29c816c0f5
font_02_sfnt_off0000bfd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFD5 2140 bytes
SHA-256: 49dddaa543544930169c80d10742cf71a10a90771d945bdf421e53748b1fa594
font_03_sfnt_off0000c9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AF 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 1dae68bc939befa6dc2e8587d289f6ae25e8b8c10860266df69496867b9b3006
font_04_sfnt_off0000f0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B7 16180 bytes
SHA-256: bfa791181ce826547180fd49114cc76f77c7b748fef5a3b3830d6c30ee2946e8