Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edc096d78388623b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ed952b5a256d74fe2d15dce26ea4ceb2 SHA-1: 3c9ae3aceb22fab3f7f308a474a3de744360a998 SHA-256: edc096d78388623b24479155e502b3112fd1506e870ea1650d53950ab78ef895
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments that, combined with the heuristic firings, suggest a lure for a fake iPhone offer. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content. 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.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=iphone+quartz+pdfcontext In PDF document text
    • http://files.farmsourceco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776661/zuwagiwujivusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.transcultural-care.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740275/222565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.texler.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681392/43451e289b9b4.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/1/0429/1844/5223/files/28422758285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1110/5183/files/7th_edition_dark_angels_codex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9952/files/33405686000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2104/files/como_ligar_por_whatsapp_libro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0106/0262/files/78328737907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6478/files/cervical_spine_range_of_motion_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6641/6549/files/nasetuwinovupezesilutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/13834516910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3744/7576/files/how_to_cook_crack_cocaine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0399/2485/files/teporipefazolager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pizejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9437/5576/files/warowurubewi.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_off0000614d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x614D 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 7279f5870ee48f21eacbcfc0dce3e5941002ecb7701c8ebca6ae5f743a01a15f
font_01_sfnt_off00007315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7315 9600 bytes
SHA-256: 2c04bb5144808bb440726c8d312d6d0813696e0669e22742e55cf36fa73138dc