Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4e3b6ee263ceeeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:37:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 87f842b6a323abeeddcd6852fdb8df75 SHA-1: 44ff3748a1c7d0d9852af6b2dbda357417515cf0 SHA-256: c4e3b6ee263ceeeb781b6defb23d3adf0b619167c21c7b70198d70efdee53eea
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a lure for 'macbook air open spreadsheet'. This link points to 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may be intended to trick the user into believing they need a password to access content, a common tactic in phishing or malware delivery.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=macbook+air+open+spreadsheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.2ndchanceapartment.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606186/29c93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jojem.neisdoap.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739964/7176782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naturallywylde.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/surerupovig_bexidafok_fefisa_jowurimimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josen.domeckynastromech.cz/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/b2e09fe6ab.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/1/0439/1400/2587/files/adobe_photoshop_cs5_tutorial_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9116/files/27061468818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/35893464703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/4925/4817/files/zujoxosesudoguvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3415/6967/files/miseresaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6934/9794/files/87467785578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/navevesilerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5830/files/15448594686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3759/5560/files/rezedulukudeketo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1361/5264/files/surah_yaseen_al_kalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1435/7145/files/jirolelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9127/1586/files/barclays_online_statement.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_off00004836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4836 5336 bytes
SHA-256: a76e120bc0674bcc77db152ae76d10ea8d508dd775be967357eaee875c6e940a
font_01_sfnt_off00005a46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A46 10096 bytes
SHA-256: f17a662675368050009577b7046b0e433cd3846c9182c00998461d12feadbd2e