Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2546dc0679cd9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 11:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 441c6137d8fbbed243cf81574cd62d5a SHA-1: 881ee4abf56cef488dfc04fb561c8944956002ea SHA-256: cc2546dc0679cd9e0946cf931376a50b079708207cd829d96ceb120ba2b3f6c5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to direct users to a malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'Amped wireless rec10 setup guide'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a SEO-based distribution tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious action is the redirection to a known malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.com/pify?keyword=amped+wireless+rec10+setup+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.makerteacher.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/nifokativubozuv-vugojubudunofes-sijuziledizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stoneworkswellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606550/6cdd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ghostinspectors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775249/7430753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cck-iuc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/fakivijan-dumusipuzavaxo-kojewuxim-lozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.openstarmaths.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/1175481.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/1/0432/5857/7046/files/nesesizedukotibixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5339/1780/files/kugitosesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1219/2413/files/87620677123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/old_age_pension_application_form_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/beauty_plus_apps_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/wezasarakitonemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1450/3075/files/36214839097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2301/4824/files/calculus_1_11th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3385/4101/files/zunivalidegowipitujigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7157/2885/files/barrio_bravo_roberto_melendez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3431/8760/files/nodebagadinazelilajibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9273/files/fekulimokatutanaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7913/files/70864900596.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_off00005b57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B57 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 0e515f01b9db099f4aea55ba8ab55793ee2c99fd248fc42393ad8b850cf34f72
font_01_sfnt_off00006de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE6 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 91ba4cebd67cd0c8fb2ef2e20edb1bf0250813027b386baeb3110b06a9cb1043