Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcc3ca4f44deccc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:33:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 628033bdd8a96f7cbcbf0d9e95071331 SHA-1: c9d845dd185932bed2a2816ebc125d38fc4e09b0 SHA-256: fcc3ca4f44deccc46de0f3808b792f2a645aec3c44ab8d38e2ca1e5c8c921b89
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL which is likely intended to trick users into clicking it. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility and traffic to the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=types+of+crop+rotation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jonclausart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/papakiwelopobimifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.writeonyouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776646/8200704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mgwirelessonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453402/buxesenadegobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tezevep.falsefloorcreative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437462/palaparewigug.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/1/0432/3845/7504/files/59953678405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/kesutevijabanarakagowewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/dapajimexozebasapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/7269/6999/files/kansas_vehicle_bill_of_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/sodurikepagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0783/4272/files/marcelo_tavares_sportsline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1510/9794/files/pst_time_zone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7004/3813/files/34022826308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6075/4582/files/vajiram_and_ravi_ancient_history_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kaxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7699/3702/files/paula_isabel_allende_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8731/2536/files/72665171893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4843/5861/files/79136752653.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_off00011053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11053 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 96673b6e946db161b4e327e2f2f37b1fb1db1bee6a66c2f35af2fe5a2a7284df
font_01_sfnt_off00012200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12200 14556 bytes
SHA-256: bc5373ffaf67dd7befdaedcccbad6d3c8de239f61f1f75f9014b1f0f26a191a4