Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d736cd7cc9b2d72e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f5d475051a234e473fdc26393c0afc0b SHA-1: c371a33660ebfbdc8ad1bde2583a436b865b50a4 SHA-256: d736cd7cc9b2d72e181c200f2397a01aca4fc9cc0bfda733faf27b13ccbc41ca
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, designed to lure users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.cc/wb?keyword=basic%20sheet%20metal%20operations%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.faithfoodallthefeels.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/nitumolikamofozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijuj.cannonridgehoa.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/vamilasusezamuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soniapalik.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740200/7fa3e9a2f963b4.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/1/0438/2657/7565/files/jirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5692/2777/files/29752610976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1152/2209/files/pokemon_mystery_dungeon_explorers_of_sky_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3997/1736/files/najisaxapivono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1582/3772/files/55151839843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/bokafoleferegogakedoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/datufezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5282/6773/files/28919616406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8434/1657/files/zojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2870/0571/files/vitazo.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B09 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6396d1a6d63ab1db6186fb5f74ef241975b80ddd680a36cf0223615135eeb5
font_01_sfnt_off00006d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5D 9352 bytes
SHA-256: b327582eb81022da263184d9d92b383b7be3bc18f16253d653eaa2117a6e920d

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