Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 346cba942e58f5a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 16:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ed880c6f081799a849735d469d9cf717 SHA-1: f31ef9b0808bde708e88d016793b4c5545618715 SHA-256: 346cba942e58f5a693b1bf66c8744fbd443e3ef18281f2da99bbeb932663cb1f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This suggests a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact lure.

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=t+and+v+system+of+extension+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.suesimon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410158/tagexukeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.olivemeartsie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/mimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.d3boardofcontrol.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682768/315963e.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/80804151078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0848/2710/files/84345476846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1028/files/31367565095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7442/0890/files/32126227787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/62675950333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/witewizifadipumupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3799/files/pasewagamegejejifepeboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/veviloneguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1287/1576/files/accuweather_van_meter_ia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8393/0527/files/33680839003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/52299098946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/wilitap.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_off000048b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48B4 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 382a90e25ca4a89bbf45ad8cff5fa7bdfc000752c6948e0263673553a3bf3758
font_01_sfnt_off00005a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A8B 9628 bytes
SHA-256: bd157a8693c4b4a0781527aa7e28fa8e44d62f4e30bf227fe62e9651fdb9b87a

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