Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3789a1d78a357bb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 37846770c39c7dcbc613fd463c0c864f SHA-1: b78a9f4ce880dc09467863a7f0a075fbf1be8e13 SHA-256: 3789a1d78a357bb77b77452ef3d8ca0adcebdf6bf28c39e1f7b7579ba1754c05
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a quiz answer key. The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious URL embedded within the document.

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=cryptic+quiz+answer+key+d-+75 In PDF document text
    • http://punesex.southcoastnutrition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/gamasuzisivateru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smartintegratedsolutions.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739076/7625ea745.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/1/0433/0756/5214/files/sazikigitivase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9740/0223/files/la_cumparsita_sheet_music_clarinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9618/5763/files/appsc_group_2_mains_syllabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7064/3614/files/venture_brothers_season_6_episode_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7966/files/74292515927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/hund_rule_and_aufbau_principle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0792/5654/files/wifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8663/files/jr_monga_basic_corporate_accounting_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7176/6690/files/43872610053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0589/5075/files/furidipidakavufebesukimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6880/files/28121984813.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
🗂 Part of campaign: smartintegratedsolutions.co.uk 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BAB 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 813003d7e40cf3e7d98dae92577e9f8718f315d99ac3270a8f10371c0fe1af0e
font_01_sfnt_off00006e9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9D 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 1fca98adaa678937496fc6c1d585e54410fa417ccb0677ead8604cfff8a3f8b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000935f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x935F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361