Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 349f644450a9dfae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 92990e374f3478ca87ad639506f77f82 SHA-1: 71847e8df2a4a82ff644d80993b3b5582d58c821 SHA-256: 349f644450a9dfaed3692aadd91ac597c3ff3e13396778e72ac9aa19ff0fdab8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.ru. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the search query 'bubble sort c pdf' and the malicious URL, indicating a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the link. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

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.ru/pify?keyword=bubble+sort+c+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gktfreechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/rarireletasexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebetterbrasspipe.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/daf3e1d8396c143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockfieldpc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454216/moziturovi_wotaribezijezoj_monep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southkravmaga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682990/7489f89.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/1/0433/4895/1194/files/the_mistress_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0990/8642/files/tifojatejalenorafizudube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0696/6429/files/81305291818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7427/3948/files/myself_essay_in_french.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7878/6965/files/reviruwonero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/42076146936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17524121831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5678/files/gebelisuruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7618/8315/files/javascript_zero_pad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9006/3003/files/dubai_map_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1065/3338/files/54660806232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7159/4911/files/70624994269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6294/2101/files/zezatidesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9906/0392/files/cours_analyse_2_smpc.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_off0000653e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x653E 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 048b04c1bfffabd8a595eb4eb18e8b6a65cb2437d6fa6852587a0dcc05aed7e2
font_01_sfnt_off000076ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76BA 16712 bytes
SHA-256: c2d0008c484d022d5f1b56adaa50e0ef2a77a7f8437c28612a27d675a87aaae2