Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc5f428eb14bbe14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 07:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61e778293c98298bd9a4fddf4e087c75 SHA-1: 5ca5144296780a76d5fb4e8acb598ecd160a012a SHA-256: cc5f428eb14bbe14c5b62998e9cae22456a59b73ab190182999516956e5f9195
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as information about a vehicle charge. The heuristic firings indicate the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, particularly the one pointing to 'ttraff.com', are likely used to deliver further malicious payloads or redirect to phishing pages.

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=vehicle+information%25C2%25A3+1+charge In PDF document text
    • http://files.alliancecustomfabrication.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/2bb25cd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aarhuscelloexpo.dk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872037/vitenizev-jabujukewowajik-rexomopiruzag-woxupafesajabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schoolbusconversion.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437330/nizuzinulowozol-jamanopusujig-telefirubejexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xerofuge.missdickson.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bitimofisefifapi.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/1/0434/2045/0973/files/11050043636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7977/0019/files/65008584061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5866/7430/files/66570448273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5110/3894/files/torubiludivimomalupimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0296/files/64050445936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2677/6227/files/dapisirumutosasukato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/flower_images_hd_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3320/files/90494638029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1070/9915/files/upload_csv_to_google_sheets_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2508/files/biografia_de_averroes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3608/6172/files/search_a_on_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/67825468236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0323/1908/files/alexandria_moulding_catalog.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_off00007408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7408 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 6f44f229af4695725ccf1bea81644fcf1ee0b41983cc604d63c4069039c45788
font_01_sfnt_off000085dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85DC 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 33636bf98037318a54d0458cdf064907653a016bda4c02a64ab01b3ea5a0c7cc