Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3145a6fd8ef9217c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65714bed63695ec411bcd20d934e8aa8 SHA-1: 26427805e8d630ef00ce76cc0643fd3fe34065e5 SHA-256: 3145a6fd8ef9217c956065736585ee5991e65b83f012224e62b9d1b75496a803
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the same URL and a reference to 'Aslan pharmaceuticals ltd annual report', suggesting a lure. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with the highest-priority URL being a Shopify link that is likely part of the same distribution chain. 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=aslan+pharmaceuticals+ltd+annual+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.provhaitioutreach.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164446/bakaxejufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitowel.gbtransplantcycling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/vowupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kenleverart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775529/5fc4f4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naruxuf.skellysongs.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163927/nafupe-paduparu-kaxepedenu.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/1/0432/2571/0756/files/analog_and_digital_electronics_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2873/3352/files/38932984482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8254/7361/files/29479270362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/zimapipodogibilosuvuwuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4216/8218/files/fobebijoratiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1509/3924/files/ditakimamizejutiserodavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97454987384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/85332214981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5624/2581/files/rename_multiple_columns_in_r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3141/2379/files/lofasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4553/5400/files/tegunegadoganomuzezodulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jewepogepavab.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6928 2984 bytes
SHA-256: a8256523c2d63f807e6cbbe9b9e4f81b1aae151147077bf74e0a03925b35bd27
font_01_sfnt_off000073d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D8 5300 bytes
SHA-256: ef5be0c3b187aeccb347579755f558aa17b5c6375b71e6221cbdc41141734151
font_02_sfnt_off000085a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85A1 11676 bytes
SHA-256: de416fbebbac59380c0b595686a6f1e0fc207901d218bcf477f05bb6a8f76acc