Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3512f7e5684a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f8cf7d427e4e3a62fe266f854f2beb6 SHA-1: 385f0476ed8ed653726eb069de9fd7b5b3294ab1 SHA-256: ee3512f7e5684a7a91b8f77b374b314c2dc848f94d861ce85ba667b49655fb7a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the attack vector.

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/wix?keyword=woh+ladki+nahi+zindagi+hai+meri+down 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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ec86922705b3465d918955a86c9d42d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_08973a8b5a864b46b7c70c8fb76f50f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_49b363b924b442619193fe2282da2ff2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07625c_0a394827c36541f9afab442e79c3de0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0b46e6_48af84b63e8041f9b7bd5f257f32e3ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_df24a06df2f44b859cb8fb66363b8e8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d21c0_96e3e5fb2848444a9857441f7da9f36a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_a030d3d176f54064b47cb057552f8d86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7306e_95020f25d65543af9d3d713855ec0961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/493135_9878fbd43bc2418f83f9a51549cd6ee6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45fd81_02a05e064d8b447885cb295feed3f911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_d1c0139053484ce28dcf4cb20ba796a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a9cc06c6fb374e959498cb5485af8591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_c348471224b54b96a9a2e77fe3c75b85.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_off00005d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D6E 4988 bytes
SHA-256: a39014755508939088e06dc42098a497e17fe224fceaf24e5850b42028236407
font_01_sfnt_off00006e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E40 15632 bytes
SHA-256: 42550a55099521c2256481aed83ec51e01bcc6beeba755c599c1fb392d60226c
font_02_sfnt_off00009f05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F05 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8409b995ac2b0bb76eb3eb8dd1c90fa55d1c1c8a40bb5daa08ca4080948d13
font_03_sfnt_off0000bc6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e