Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5d04c0b621e8f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-07-29 09:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 702fea9ecc5af39b053d27d0a303a718 SHA-1: 5ba40c062cb4cf4f8dd10e830efd38b0060fca6b SHA-256: c5d04c0b621e8f6db7a4ac24b33dd8b9733db5d9a24f7c8cdbe133c4b3dbbcf4
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc', which is a known malicious domain. Additionally, it features a large number of embedded links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to Android backups, likely a lure to entice clicks. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports a social engineering attack vector.

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.
  • 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) 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.cc/pify?keyword=android+7+force+google+backup In PDF document text
    • http://files.kellicatesmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453421/savowujunino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karrathacaravanpark.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969364/d149b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beautifulyounailsandspa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874587/d0250ae14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tangofloorspace.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070841/7ab17b96dc43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.10keventz.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/gupikukilovit-bivafegevig-jarotanugunosa.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/1/0438/4446/8901/files/58197008689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0056/0803/files/64979717356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6831/6055/files/26635529188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5834/0774/files/44717563782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9277/files/83993553503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4899/2922/files/34928171946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3455/files/96086667445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1097/3083/files/xenetisunotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8905/8206/files/90187003749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6679/files/58241996862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3998/8648/files/sozulazuwugedevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3781/files/8558470844.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_off00007356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7356 5220 bytes
SHA-256: f69a34f75492d10356f8d211914d5367bd31f9d6ba825f8eb549ab25b13d342f
font_01_sfnt_off00008522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8522 12480 bytes
SHA-256: 311d6cc19badef12cd0856a9fde648e650f04540ea3708e6dacaf94f7100e5ce