Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3867ebeb67137c15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 195081e60d1e64ad0ddfadb69c37f6d8 SHA-1: cb84c247091cef2cf4f6000fbfabf306a8093cb9 SHA-256: 3867ebeb67137c15ea0eae43fc6e3a9958b778d6833bb22df526caaeb15dcfa9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL, suggesting the intent is to trick the user into visiting the redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=probability+tree+diagrams+exam+questions+and+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.hazelminerbook.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/pifemolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.skin-spa.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/nafeni-gefamofuzafiwa-xapagej-ruzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.healplaylove.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814155/8162145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.perryphysicaltherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/loxopotun.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/1/0435/7960/5147/files/sivevurufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7103/6823/files/descargar_sticker_maker_for_whatsapp_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7562/3320/files/31045658450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2733/2252/files/9866885695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6744/0294/files/answers_pet_food_yeast_protocol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3612/8933/files/theorems_of_boolean_algebra_proof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6994/7555/files/50868689048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/75233775971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5636/4711/files/36086427444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5281/7832/files/jupobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0297/7700/files/fowox.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_off000080b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B6 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa1542d528a13898d52e4a4f6c65c2acdc05047672776f8f5aca3ddf7adca74
font_01_sfnt_off000093f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93F8 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 7c4118c6fcfc2af64442be032181d1fb211de4e6c87d184d0a1283d8559bd7c2

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