Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4ad476ec0e3740e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 22:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7d4ac4636d0d09583e26333448b69a17 SHA-1: 08707ccdc6ea49de49a340b16c58f2e49263478a SHA-256: c4ad476ec0e3740e29c4399183e0cbb79303f6c83d711e1f29805bd3d75adcb2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content. It also features a link farm with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to improve search engine ranking for malicious downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=cambridge+checkpoint+mathematics+teacher+s+resource+8+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.rockingcleatherandboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383510/7375545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijig.elitelinesny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/jagezinoliditepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kinglobby.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739456/kexezejewibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosminicentrewisbech.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408415/jafujulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.generationjobless.eu/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681336/zefelojuvuk-fuvenojulaf-rodawudu.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/1/0439/5198/0712/files/16014225881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7062/6723/files/mapa_geologico_de_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5089/1424/files/54057671920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5393/2966/files/gebixuwinulubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1434/9215/files/doloxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5172/8546/files/78883039033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2479/files/wagitirodekotusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4976/0406/files/fake_drivers_license_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6141/8913/files/semetizovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2548/8279/files/file_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sopituwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3681/files/tubolikebodimomifibuvelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2095/files/calculus_analytic_geometry_larson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9841/files/85781015403.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_off0000584a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584A 5964 bytes
SHA-256: 55f4e30f72e441b20e082dc76601bf3bd448a65057326512f4b5f50843e4f2ec
font_01_sfnt_off00006c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C74 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 4683bece6d18832ffb5b5715e96e3aabec0a98d2b903de5f6b0cea963fb7eb68