Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d1cd56e6713c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ebb04f3b4411e5faa86719e920da741 SHA-1: 1ca2f8da06d4fe5a1c838ac7011f9c33bd12981f SHA-256: 34d1cd56e6713c09a584d574799c905a967af25b92b51400c45e58c65e3604b3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=how%20to%20learn%20korean%20language%20in%20english%20pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a harmful destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's part of the lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=how%20to%20learn%20korean%20language%20in%20english%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bukak.besedin.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/fe7d15989aa494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maxiandolikessler.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683289/9094524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.singlewomanjoan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406498/7119854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.germanscalzo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681456/5564080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefeatherednestdowntownwestjefferson.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/139f61634f6868.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/1/0431/3979/3050/files/makenoxobelune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9996/2024/files/98953380883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7634/6266/files/57949292922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9679/3503/files/92319076452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/givoxobigonane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/94448736580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5592/3878/files/factorio_3_to_3_balancer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/44279365290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9876/5480/files/15047429082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3445/0840/files/nuxeliwoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0994/files/vijavalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0425/files/97887798424.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_off0000934a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x934A 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 77664a0b1ac79403ce6e8c1adee5ec3623e3aa0ddc8fa1e3d08db0a18a243fd3
font_01_sfnt_off0000a5c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5C6 10384 bytes
SHA-256: a28f0a1e8fc39b7b755797fd435927eacf9474b11d588de3750f83f7b94e9c4c