Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9699abb10b9583c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4d6fe6a5dead959c970f0276e8e966e7 SHA-1: 430efc4d8319f9d1b5eaf999ffbd62ff2b5bcb0c SHA-256: d9699abb10b9583c2a621095a0f98566392b08e8920283a203424f2e0f626541
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is presented to the user as a download for a dictionary app. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but the presence of the malicious redirector indicates a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=u+dictionary+app++english+to+bengali In PDF document text
    • http://files.jq-photography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380915/nagudunoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.physiotherapyassociates.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452904/xutegujetigutonijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojanavub.rigonibakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/1417292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5702/files/communication_networks_leon_garcia_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9293/0716/files/6th_grade_vocabulary_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0885/1098/files/2281917652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/buforexunagasojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6489/3345/files/telugu_panchatantra_kathalu_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4245/6231/files/mime_type_csv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1816/5146/files/fool_on_the_hill_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7618/1404/files/fijelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8802/7543/files/fikunojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4248/5910/files/diseases_related_to_carbohydrate_metabolism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4204/4066/files/top_social_media_platforms_in_brazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4897/6027/files/basics_of_cooking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2092/7655/files/58741166146.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000056fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56FC 5356 bytes
SHA-256: d1930cd82414f3d3350813a69bdcb10cb1987f91700e0932671c2902472aeef3
font_01_sfnt_off00006919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6919 13444 bytes
SHA-256: a80c989ca8599ae8dc1f228ec1fa2eb701ed6acac43bf45893b09e179657fe40
font_02_sfnt_off00009303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9303 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333