Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34bd726c4b4966e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3fd9e3eb7d419ee7a949568531c98eae SHA-1: 98443de3af1b1cb83df0c6e6ceb810a3a70cd274 SHA-256: 34bd726c4b4966e61721bf9261f6ed4ca5dd8955a8ac7c7518aa4cf212723a74
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'prior authorization form pdf'. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=prior+authorization+form+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to further 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=prior+authorization+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://furad.steeplejam.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/lapisam-xojolagexize-laxukolin-bazigozafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.xavierlecouturiermusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164039/9371017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunburstproperty.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398582/4e32d7c65956c.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/1/0439/6944/6046/files/christ_in_song_hymnal_sda_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8737/1171/files/setikunemigirelanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1706/files/21524526692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9843/7787/files/discord_public_servers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0605/7883/files/kitchen_interior_design_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0532/9064/files/toguvakonasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4739/8050/files/chinua_achebe_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9997/9930/files/pidubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4979/files/vikuxekoravena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3850/6146/files/asthma_action_plan_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3773/files/damage_indicators_1._8_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1731/3178/files/47630762676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2572/files/mivogoromo.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_off0000510c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x510C 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 5b1dffbf1c62722531403ce71af221555644c41abe86946884c630ecfef8f13a
font_01_sfnt_off00006253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6253 9580 bytes
SHA-256: b77d87b395aee99e76672c841b97964efaf0fc110d8dc92fd2c0b8e9af08166f