Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e42449cdaf9e5f16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 59b97e0f38799bdfb3e6e359fec0c0ac SHA-1: 6c18c3a11f4b055bd4c6567418ec3dceee6bc535 SHA-256: e42449cdaf9e5f162af6684d1d1bb0e57f9e566cb699813a9614b9cf125c9b8f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to obscure the final destination. The document also exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing lure, specifically mentioning MFA or one-time code harvesting. The presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, while many are benign, suggests a link farm used to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to host phishing pages. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the embedded URL is clearly visible and points to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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=draw+bitmap+on+canvas+android+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.almosteleventhebook.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453459/lasokamume.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/1/0431/4071/0562/files/makalah_anti_jamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2113/9096/files/cashbook_spreadsheet_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9906/8310/files/cake_recipes_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7806/files/sevaxopalezejoxisimumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3411/5233/files/biwuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0041/3856/files/sibunirexaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/51863514774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0857/3091/files/22936705184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9464/5672/files/civic_education_curriculum_in_nigeria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8426/6137/files/74114106924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8706/7291/files/80867237224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9847/0555/files/gaximurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1440/5793/files/32208348230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3453/3275/files/polusud.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_off000067d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D5 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 0a43d6a720f16ab129aec60c92448178b93d83bf883c15d2beecbc038ff3dcf8
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC4 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 0206fbb1c8de8735c5c255f975965c07df7bd860a030fa4a26b660400685c9d3