Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3385469ee0a02193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ac247fdd058eb19c692bd4848f5321d SHA-1: 09f498e144cecf9829c4f5914fea7f207ed9c8e8 SHA-256: 3385469ee0a02193721896bc6ece4f5693e9ed04b1db7c520096f4ebc59072b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=archetypes+and+motifs+in+folklore+and+literature+a+handbook+pdf. While the document body suggests a lure related to a handbook, the actual payload delivery mechanism is through the embedded malicious link.

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=archetypes+and+motifs+in+folklore+and+literature+a+handbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.workingmumdiary.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/6695639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zakeryrey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776887/sifikusidefinurinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gijowu.rscareersupport.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/2901092.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/1/0433/8761/7447/files/54224166256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0102/8503/files/99894433373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8723/files/20160544732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1644/4311/files/13406038400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4319/1969/files/12987185627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1042/4993/files/24415921054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3367/files/puxatapinojatidisakowubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7564/1247/files/57445512890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3080/4637/files/zemukemawotetudosusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/vodepawanobenakubezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0016/7589/files/48488285414.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_off000045a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45A4 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 6bea3f035c5d6e46a3f1bef72731e24b5f0fbcf70c01c0fae1a8564c6540dad4
font_01_sfnt_off000058dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DD 9516 bytes
SHA-256: c97bc1531ad9cdf21488bd3ba877a8fd7444d99f8296c5ac6d089482893e93ae

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