Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3db3cb8863a9b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 22:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f711f3144caef7fc3aab1db7ca1bee5b SHA-1: 56f493a4116578ddd5ef9a27bbaa98c02bbcd40a SHA-256: 0e3db3cb8863a9b0cbac9298890366ea74e2d7c8a8acce391d872d11ebf6e9f3
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, presenting itself as a lure for browser extension or update installation. It contains numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chrome+full+screen+mac', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it is part of a phishing campaign designed to trick users into downloading potentially malicious software or revealing credentials.

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.
  • 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=chrome+full+screen+mac In PDF document text
    • http://files.seahillfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/9f2bae83426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lymefilm.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873945/4072913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.affiliatedtattoofamily.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814921/962443.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/1/0431/8032/7076/files/somorifuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6978/3720/files/68198167783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5042/5753/files/22763463149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/rekuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/42690913328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5110/6972/files/nexukojumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5082/files/1196683846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3217/2965/files/kejubali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2408/9242/files/55103962609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0575/0946/files/how_to_strikethrough_in_discord.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_off00005e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E63 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 4d23e215afe626c856a391fef24cff9bbbbe1b33119854eb7b203372372d0447
font_01_sfnt_off00006f48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F48 9920 bytes
SHA-256: a309e9d3ba4a55f11d77ce44b8be1953cfd277a457c83402df3015e058b0ef83