Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3328f3878cf0a4aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 09:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aff9f96cb0baae9974a0bd9655edba97 SHA-1: 7ffae174ad235671b7f0b79f2276dbd604398b5d SHA-256: 3328f3878cf0a4aa2ab9cd6c4353dec62c73a98970325d492d05dd7f607d342f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a large number on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates these links are part of a link farm, and another flags a link to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious redirector URL.

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.cc/pify?keyword=c+clear+input+buffer In PDF document text
    • http://files.transparentfinancialinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969037/2648441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kelliescompass.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437676/afff9a10f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thatsclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871902/4463036.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/1/0433/5602/9093/files/80505779917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1675/7153/files/35969064166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7506/6273/files/48151231628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69298849274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6280/files/key_and_peele_nfl_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/womosoravitixugefiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3075/8054/files/varabekisaruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7012/files/nemugugegibabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0894/1467/files/gesirizegepogaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2896/3747/files/42330602171.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_off000068e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68E9 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 1116640a86327477507360bd17982c3db103e750dfed743150035c85f9924015
font_01_sfnt_off00007989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7989 14636 bytes
SHA-256: 0d54d6b6a4cd3b3f3242103934d3c731dac9816ce942e5bd4ce9d6381240382b

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