Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c93a2a024ceeba86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:26:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1eb1855c5a039566549c19fbb89f6573 SHA-1: 9ac4ed991a46dff34787cb9b1fd9e63b7bc87872 SHA-256: c93a2a024ceeba86b71c9ebc35778134b7b0136ccf5b28c72870c7ccabd3f352
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 flagged as malicious. It also features a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports the malicious intent of redirecting the user to potentially harmful content.

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=chunkzz+malayalam+full+movie++720p In PDF document text
    • http://delet.tracyleighpottery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/pazadowumuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deliahagen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814475/gitepegiwereki_nebulegagazisu_xadejisonebit_lafodunukuguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inikamoze.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856398/1593531.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/1/0431/5417/8216/files/26687735632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8890/files/administracion_de_recursos_humanos_snell_y_bohlander.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6838/3642/files/nedagiseperolonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2398/1979/files/67890778187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3619/6507/files/environmental_chemistry_baird_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9000/1572/files/4727244720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0324/files/48504347308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2230/0822/files/vocabulary_list_for_ielts_general.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6073/9752/files/51443922919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9703/8756/files/xoraroxunokovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/9527773861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/editable_d_d_5e_character_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/fexit.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ABF 5404 bytes
SHA-256: fc57412219477cda5a3dcdfa8bbf007a1e88f03aebb523ec2ee5f897c10b0866
font_01_sfnt_off00005d13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D13 10080 bytes
SHA-256: e58116eed9bc8dd3295582ae7f6ae349d95591b07f8a48cf04ea93e057cbea48
font_02_sfnt_off00007fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC4 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 660d05b38fea380e8cc13f4a5a7db764e9bd2a20a73145a73af50c118749f22b