Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db004f4610b25286…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:21:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c96a29e574bc7d9582d1ce1760521eef SHA-1: b44531dddb32913b824bfb5c6b57f9fd8142ab0f SHA-256: db004f4610b2528636d67f2fc341b24563a9758fd49fc1bf4cbf4da28013cc1d
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link (ttraff.cc) and a large number of embedded links, indicating a link farm strategy. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for callback phishing or a tech-support scam. The presence of a malicious redirector strongly suggests the intent is to lead the user to a site that will likely host further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=a+student+poured+a+solution+of+bromo In 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/1/0429/5272/0543/files/fagapaxodaziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8995/8814/files/detiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/communication_commands_in_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_95b23d8922f241e0be8f83f956bdb087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_72cd5335c9b545b1a8df691538be0e6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3838/9925/files/51505120987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9130/4343/files/php_simple_file_upload.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7482/2043/files/xelemamafejimurasubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/7709/8661/files/chat_room_website_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_8fffabc1e0854109935df8979efaa650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f7374e4ddc74456af9432fd1a30e279.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E90 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 5dabbc3c6a0c2a1c73ec5082d2e496e434ad7a7c7d6a7c570d33a5650bd49da2
font_01_sfnt_off0001600d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1600D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: bee62bf579f3230d16bfcadf3aa53d6ad368326e2dd4eca9c38042042ea2a17e
font_02_sfnt_off0001855b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1855B 16100 bytes
SHA-256: f4f5fb0209a4714c3cbdfe9b8e29dbdabffe5d2cbe58e8cc741460ff97ba63ed
font_03_sfnt_off00019a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A25 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e