Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c17912c84b242f88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 329c4212805e1a8dcbe73cc0fe272d11 SHA-1: 2d72ecadcfb1dc1225ae98f4b5fd5c4b06c4b663 SHA-256: c17912c84b242f88d7caabbb4392e89f6d0b757136998e1bf33b113a5a97108d
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to 'sheet cakes decorated with fresh flowers' and a URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing confirms the malicious intent of the embedded links. The document also exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure, asking the user to call a number in a billing or refund context.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=sheet+cakes+decorated+with+fresh+flowers In PDF document text
    • http://files.ballaratorphanagechildrenshome.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739463/dekoboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sepeko.domainedefrance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/tetejikisavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamsfindyou.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775331/muzekudovarupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allanlacoursiere.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/223c5956dce4ec0.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/1/0430/6550/8002/files/jezabivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2807/7992/files/tinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7720/6178/files/11552805193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7950/5822/files/12th_science_biology_book_in_gujarati_sem_3_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3545/7698/files/scorpion_little_lost_boy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3852/0997/files/big_green_egg_recipe_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0161/8327/files/56207168717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/xijoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0824/4381/files/tutorials_in_introductory_physics_homework.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2914/7293/files/amantele_trecutului_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1496/3868/files/affidavit_form_qld.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_off00006142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6142 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 0dcb19f6f5fd89b4cd2a6427542ff853ee10d1682701cbafcc8436b97aaa0535
font_01_sfnt_off0000738d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738D 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 9b60865d756dcfaed947dee2993f4718bee02d99fe9160ff829a290839d02358