Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c43bbe7bc26b044e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a1b431c9209076f96360a415e5be40c SHA-1: 0195a040a7427725ba3665972d4c7a931c8434d3 SHA-256: c43bbe7bc26b044e69701bd7dae771e3967dae22520cac69c4a9f659950e80c9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Tamil calendar january 2020 pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDFs, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=tamil+calendar+january+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mujiwojut.pieintheskystjohns.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/adbdcd27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancingjewel.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163914/952bf1ac2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.savouryspoon.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438329/55de2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0128/2711/files/53521477777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2067/files/84254645608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5913/2069/files/34087783710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2742/9533/files/xuxesibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8307/1650/files/megepejanakigefemexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4538/8437/files/40657063839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1095/files/miopia_e_atropina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/4266824115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3483/7149/files/11675956144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6200/0806/files/judirudomosizerowitixalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2520/2325/files/xiwuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0999/0043/files/allama_iqbal_open_university_admission_form_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0667/2546/files/20491920050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3947/3314/files/4007115425.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

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Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004eba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EBA 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 127915529057bf829baf632e8b341b729e7302f9aa2ec7eaf8d6a9caa5555a94
font_01_sfnt_off00006053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6053 3024 bytes
SHA-256: f747eae70b613a7addfe878d940650e583504124e476350495eb712ecf3e0446
font_02_sfnt_off00006b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B81 9764 bytes
SHA-256: 869522bc5c0a4f72d49d2d086921cecf8ca48a4186275b388fa5f1dbd2d308ef
font_03_sfnt_off00008d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D2E 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 5d52f40a13f54bcc329d29992e3abd0fd28294c8bc547691d9075fb1d42365f7
font_04_sfnt_off0000a1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1D3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3

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