Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3296c3d0b12ca589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:22:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c7ebd627fb59deb923d0e790bf3b5ef SHA-1: 49142135782c421204dd4b7b648fbe07964be011 SHA-256: 3296c3d0b12ca589b0a0a290946f58a0bd5daef831833213c82c908599d2c566
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=gap+analysis+summary+report+template'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. 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.ru/pify?keyword=gap+analysis+summary+report+template In PDF document text
    • http://duzokej.hoopstraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857054/gapumonalopiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.illinoisaviation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739368/xedokuz-movibigegibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.columbinepta.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/bobikigoxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xunixivi.ozgurince.co/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856543/tuguzutanoxok-jafis-lutirikatenuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sizina.timothyprice.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071243/fumenedakalunabika.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/1/0436/0306/7038/files/fiselezodener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2475/files/98966892306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6450/9094/files/abd_al_aziz_ibn_baz_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6694/7744/files/basic_arabic_words_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/english_word_search_worksheets_for_kindergarten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2430/8630/files/lopedanufananomiparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5726/7359/files/business_accounting_and_finance_catherine_gowthorpe_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/12991621818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5329/files/43264599671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6679/files/jofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6083/9078/files/canadian_visa_application_form_5257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8770/files/kelitomeviligudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.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_off000073ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73CE 5096 bytes
SHA-256: bb8d86543ff732e6d9aa58bbf25d8e55d16b14cae429fe3746cfb2e6ca111fa1
font_01_sfnt_off0000851a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x851A 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 8e00d45836b71600aea600cbf3fcb87ac6819e2882108a20e56fdb8a8ad4b264