Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0da77ab1d159681…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 20:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 25f081d9b0e13b1e9c32956c322307d2 SHA-1: 41f3f781a8e67ada41e8c5f74fc70906f3ddb807 SHA-256: d0da77ab1d159681142d56101dc6b508ca2cb513a30810356c5c90060443e043
230 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link to 'ttraff.cc' is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=utsa+print+spot', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=utsa+print+spot In PDF document text
    • http://files.polished-professionals.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/busefonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fortworthfirevolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/414142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miltmedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856380/tomerelumizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alivewhy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410606/doxibozoxo.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/1/0435/7675/4344/files/genekixulenatazanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7510/9013/files/85676862952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4993/3208/files/69702367443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6370/files/sogawegajimuxenukavufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7310/0184/files/futinisefujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5152/4008/files/54676589433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4711/files/puvaxanemarawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9204741539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/38685613471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2860/3295/files/24275560589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5829/1093/files/nitigigozirodewabomesogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8924/5861/files/zupufitixifuvipuregeza.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_off0000746f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x746F 4772 bytes
SHA-256: c668b20a64aed935cf0abdd6575122725091d9488641ec11904df12cf1fdf768
font_01_sfnt_off000084ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84BA 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 982e11f66d1905430d45501b7e6f7bbd11a0123ab9c5b63377a423c1811e4778