Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a913cd1025a5ab1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c98ce272f25351691c69ca5a1714be56 SHA-1: bd64fc23a06ea434b1d7209b249293f389c5150a SHA-256: 3a913cd1025a5ab1d2dc3bba25275b523ded193f00a4ba8772e8e02197e5b394
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding a large number of external links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which likely serves to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a more detailed analysis of the lure.

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/wb?keyword=general%20characteristics%20of%20microorganisms%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bluetarotshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739549/9768677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.floralunaapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738951/4645279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tenenaz.iananc.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/6458264.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/1/0431/4189/0209/files/cancionero_de_baladas_para_guitarra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8871/5682/files/13527973805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6097/7048/files/strength_and_conditioning_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8810/2051/files/rock_paper_scissors_lizard_spock_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3757/0710/files/33832129509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/9123458055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3519/7602/files/mahendra_banking_awareness_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5651/2676/files/pudumogukekotifokolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4298/7423/files/80553375124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0096/9896/files/nujivawodurovadaroderelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1867/3566/files/modiwutimedalazijifepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2651/3048/files/romobozewalegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5660/4070/files/brunson_poker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9092/0099/files/13541091517.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_off000077ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77EA 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 87502b9b979696972424d71d61ba727170e9dcf999932b891f9ff8958abb72fe
font_01_sfnt_off00008a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A0A 9648 bytes
SHA-256: 32449add90d30de9e64e25bd13696f01da0cdec0707563cec5926b765bad680c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB14 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 8405bb6ca9a6fb718a2e910e1cdde4d74ac2122cab0061dc5f772322db9c7ccd