Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3241f8b6355f5526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c378dd9d3ac3809ed613c2f5f5a5b64a SHA-1: 6f132fd57d1a349659b73f439ee231e1489d76bb SHA-256: 3241f8b6355f55261d1e0e0df0fb7b497e69816f15ef7029a2a5d5ece3a82570
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is likely used to obscure the true malicious destination. Another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content broadly. The presence of these link farms and redirectors strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=architecture+plan+symbols+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.elitestreetwear.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455680/5d5ddcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gartersnakes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/zinudijufefixugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.premierebasketball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739069/5340979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolannliaros.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814996/zatekedire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nickreadentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683135/f96a99036cd6d2.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/1/0431/8530/7808/files/70676914270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5025/files/23200522913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5526/6457/files/similarities_and_differences_between_mitosis_and_meiosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6840/7464/files/online_malayalam_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2431/7607/files/feropononesofinegofitowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9617/8845/files/sasuxozazajoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9585/0150/files/ahmed_deedat_francais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3789128943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5756/0217/files/19673559176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/vukamamajosibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3459/8809/files/94652463019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7138/1405/files/xufolimedivafiwiwosopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1761/7057/files/72166059473.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_off00006e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E6A 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 2ccc57de603e1beafb94e008be60d9d77998e60140e096676d9a0c64c59c0ccf
font_01_sfnt_off00008165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8165 9476 bytes
SHA-256: 5b15eec325092ea7d09e57680cfaf215b50f0dda66b9d9c2c61eb63507d6bdab