Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0057818ba58034d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 14:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e8047b25b681ff1c80ce1fb147babc19 SHA-1: aebf6c6ccdece73c129f8e25f8981c0ec3da0113 SHA-256: f0057818ba58034d6d877940fae157a50ee720abe4204b4cdd3576dc22037519
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com' which is associated with malicious activity. It also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final destination. The document body and heuristics indicate lures for MFA harvesting and callback phishing, suggesting a multi-stage attack. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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
  • 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=student+finance+secret+answer+reset In PDF document text
    • http://files.snail-loves.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452817/2250485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartofyogafalmouth.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681576/5edfd42c64db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duluwumeb.extendedlengthsessex.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412181/29174e87.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/1/0434/6318/0454/files/neuro_physiotherapy_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/retigijuxawalolipenolovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9897/5899/files/bengali_calendar_1424_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/17403204767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2880/6807/files/15903981991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/cell_organelles_and_their_functions_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/20109349052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6667/8696/files/71630395450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9482/7415/files/types_of_networking_cables_and_connectors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4520/files/google_sheets_script_as_csv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4598/5192/files/sony_message_apk_mirror.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_off000064af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AF 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 3985a38713620a520e3831ed79d86610d21a018ee99e2f97438e8bec716a2eda
font_01_sfnt_off00007665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7665 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 68bd3622f048252eebd7d06553b9094255ea4f11696ecd844562f7b556b5089a