Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e3f21eb122d61d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 08:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 77afdd7f1a01d6800eaa040660e8f2f6 SHA-1: dfb28a006cbd45abb86f8bb78eb4307df01deea5 SHA-256: 29e3f21eb122d61dc97acfafb5bb34b044992f4ab05f96c5592860cbfe879236
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keywords related to 'Mcafee antivirus software', suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting the malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector.

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=mcafee+antivirus+software++for+pc In PDF document text
    • http://files.perfectearthlandscape.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453198/3bf8fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wakefieldperformingarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437423/b65388ebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.futureslps.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406701/dapomawukasuwupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamharrisfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437295/nopufu-zetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muwegej.youruniverseyoga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776023/fd065be16fd.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/1/0440/7807/1960/files/refraction_and_reflection_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0930/8829/files/24705769232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4190/5050/files/the_cask_of_amontillado_by_edgar_allan_poe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1137/9097/files/69112873916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3932/6361/files/30880111737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/campaniform_sensilla_locomotion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1962/4870/files/pazexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0749/0717/files/centrifugal_blower_maintenance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6590/8136/files/acuerdos_de_convivencia_preescolar.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6204 5136 bytes
SHA-256: bfc34de92283a8c449a3251e0f376a692ec1fec0f8bba3ec518559823871c44e
font_01_sfnt_off000073a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A7 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 4ace4f7b35a466c048d13a95fb2c0ba185f646a1f5de535def4f4d6ae06f84b4

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