Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fabe626325f3f450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5040a30913d98a37e2a60c63df2098da SHA-1: 811c02716b3119bf40c6dbcaa0174af34f106809 SHA-256: fabe626325f3f450989edda830f5ceab35b9fbabe6782ca8675b2e542d7f2633
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc' disguised as a free software download. This, combined with the 'Browser Install Lure' and 'Password Archive Lure' heuristics, strongly suggests a social engineering attack. The document body itself contains the malicious URL, indicating an attempt to trick the user into downloading further payloads or providing credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=google+chromium+free++for+ubuntu In PDF document text
    • http://newiweka.furgetmenotrescue.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398360/958631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sopoochtraining.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/kawivibugakovuj.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/1/0431/6600/7457/files/40604435343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1290/6405/files/sumusewajilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8179/2677/files/rujamasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6558/files/ambala_weather_report_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4897/files/91547909741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3435/files/las_amistades_particulares_roger_peyrefitte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6753/9623/files/95871886564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1913/1285/files/95258041884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/15738225086.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17440 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 9aaa79b69c0ad796861b88a82b72a0f521c20274b45a6f76d684a246a4b87441
font_01_sfnt_off00018573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18573 15720 bytes
SHA-256: 62bbcec0578a211ebb5bd7e17aa5507918bfb7ee1d4456b0cd54d0b24d6aa1e2
font_02_sfnt_off0001b735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B735 16312 bytes
SHA-256: b2563e85233037e3c2780690ed1455257f868516b5a962e54e6ffe29314c9cb1