Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3534fe50a9a50671…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5750dca89b6927fdb8f8e67343293bc9 SHA-1: 2867838e0cda464e7d2d07cd2aa8221f187d494a SHA-256: 3534fe50a9a50671095b4ef31882a30efccf382ab1fa9484dbe142bbe7d6bce1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious one, indicates a likely attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, possibly for further exploitation or phishing.

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=traffic+report+i+40+west+nc In PDF document text
    • http://files.certainperfectratio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637125/fapilowetelaji.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/1/0434/1687/9271/files/82808205892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8692/0347/files/65232244222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9932/3558/files/xoxuwexuxaludevudidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7313/5011/files/sivanamowanuwerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/fofekopitewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6746/files/lewis_structures_and_vsepr_practice_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/86746993342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2621/1238/files/51603809562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6161/4494/files/cleric_character_sheet_3._5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9807/0435/files/30864930255.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_off0000482f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x482F 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 45f66d318d086fc1bcaef71c2552db21f289d0d3905e7de997152890df5c6060
font_01_sfnt_off00005a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A26 13696 bytes
SHA-256: 7eef9ce135a5f469610e324635acc99e3747a2294f909a07b47d9ecb8b304512

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