Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3381ada848e286c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:56:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a3e740dde2f0cd4913da15b4bfd4267 SHA-1: 5a54dce99de48b4b7077c1d87c2f3baf085e7309 SHA-256: 3381ada848e286c1d2720b604605932d527ff00f41b8f6e0772fcec5d817c201
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The primary link, disguised as a 'data studio download pdf', redirects through 'ttraff.com' to a malicious destination. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt leveraging SEO techniques to distribute malicious content.

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=data+studio+download+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://venipo.communityecologylab.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/laralijazaguwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabozig.druhatrava.us/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/fuzabawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.baremedispa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696500/2377327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamhighstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814225/c27f85b60b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saracarterdance.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/bologenekom.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/1/0438/8323/3448/files/detuwareda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3971/1655/files/luzigilisimemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4334/0956/files/fusamudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2701/2507/files/99616093188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6371/3690/files/94672679012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0361/7173/files/90678758268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0979/4463/files/nobevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/tupemabulalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1827/2423/files/php_multiple_constructors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9002/5375/files/un_biologi_sma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6545/9366/files/vepajadikelazapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/gunufunurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/depuwi.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_off00006d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D0A 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 7f5806151126f9de8d22e7e29a8bd8f67e5dff9b75da19335e237980787930f3
font_01_sfnt_off00007e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E59 13280 bytes
SHA-256: 50fd9495819162f4ce13532c04d3169199e1229611cc81e6f09eae5164f581b9