Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 346c2be32d1c8a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b901b255a4880610a0a4dc6334fdb3ca SHA-1: 1cec1d14d89456bcab2a113011943baec6f407e5 SHA-256: 346c2be32d1c8a8d40b04a59a08d057b4daeba063a6f3736a2af2588d91ac7de
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content, such as a repair manual, but redirects to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is flagged as a redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. 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.com/wb?keyword=2008%20buick%20lacrosse%20repair%20manual%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.prodigalsunsolar.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856052/b2a6d74befa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thedailyamg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454620/957933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.invisageblinds.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381722/zedevusaf-nogerogut-tosakofazojoxid-jaxomilibibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kabani.eu/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/zitum-mowegedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijelupe.flattailpress.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/gilepamoratixav.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/1/0436/4907/3312/files/miwuwujuwesetudinodedafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/complete_javascript_tutorial_with_examples_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1735/files/tonijesimugelonixedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9275/3049/files/infierno_de_dante.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7385/7686/files/87767996687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9020/6101/files/zefenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7596/0985/files/tixerofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8121/8710/files/beauty_salon_business_plan_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8326/0314/files/autumn_leaves_jazz_tab.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_off00004adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ADF 5876 bytes
SHA-256: f34472fabc7328c6de8a34adfe53338bff837966d51b37ecb21a8d15b70ceb67
font_01_sfnt_off00005eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EAF 10248 bytes
SHA-256: d2d1e03d66ba9789b3a8f9a054a0f76ef56c06600a8dd401278d93d7e0dd0ab9