Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35310fd46a22c60d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:40:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3b6dd3eb57fda6abaec348edf62af1d3 SHA-1: 386e84daf510118f4ddcdcf46c1b86388a60c753 SHA-256: 35310fd46a22c60d452c2742ac881e3e887498c0f18446fe006bbb449843243a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Periapical abscess treatment pdf' and includes the malicious URL. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims 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.ru/pify?keyword=periapical+abscess+treatment+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifeindustries.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381021/15f28895e65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inibus.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483002/kerijafikopuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niduwi.twitterforsocialworkers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/4274865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tripblisstravel.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740665/wudopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebasslaboratory.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873783/jajejuwonujivat-vapabavofo-buwoselumik-falafuzige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9896/files/tuwiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0693/0583/files/luporiwatanebipepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1536/5031/files/7865787714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81397135942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/nixidaxotome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8972/9438/files/suzarepuzabalima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8559/4775/files/zakufitibelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9448/files/chemical_composition_of_bacterial_cell_wall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0450/9853/files/89336629742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69696378660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9815/files/wuvigowininepinudasutifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4473/2065/files/80421497043.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FC 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4b4409ad8281bda226f583f43cda0d979e325634b318acead641395f679836
font_01_sfnt_off00007330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7330 9748 bytes
SHA-256: e0d0f2e472011161201e44ec8aea21572279474693292b644ea86f7b93a6380e
font_02_sfnt_off00009484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9484 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176