Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a4f39b6640072db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00045081a66b1a3d45e2fcf4f51a835b SHA-1: fe69324536b0d7e0af74cefc3bc6015bc0f25da5 SHA-256: 3a4f39b6640072dbc024914e85d3e3f4d2336ab4128c652a2027135ff46b518c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pathophysiology+of+acute+respiratory+distress+syndrome+pdf`. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata related to its creation by wkhtmltopdf, but the primary malicious intent is derived from the numerous external links.

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=pathophysiology+of+acute+respiratory+distress+syndrome+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.danczensv.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381006/mulosokizoboruwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ccsflippinvintage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/vefelegelukijujazozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stauderwood.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813732/7714201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nachnook.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/1177640.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/1/0433/0595/9588/files/xifirarojavamoxonigevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5516/9186/files/sebegefijugopigefafozapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5471/9395/files/wurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7430/6719/files/63053365624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/37640617920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3827/6760/files/zenexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/vavewisimuposolanulirabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9575/2864/files/75441055108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/mcculloch_eager_beaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8881/0918/files/danganronpa_v3_rule_34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/befuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2544/9628/files/nezoso.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000737b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737B 5672 bytes
SHA-256: d2316afd43b9da16bba79e4885c792360408ce85c74ea78b32f99e632ea68674
font_01_sfnt_off000086ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86AB 11256 bytes
SHA-256: c9efdfa4d99127776b247dd43bd9df7b9463083c5ac88750f876cc614e216f7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB99 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 6820151f9a4816bccc9e85e605aef44ce22c8924dfcccd161584754f275bf028