Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b0499a40088a5c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-07-26 22:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b04af3452729ce2f5ec5132675a42a35 SHA-1: 40109495a20d65edb38046d1019883011a1ef9d2 SHA-256: 3b0499a40088a5c51152c42d927e6539e933d71b1ea4b693ffa5c2edc94646c5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ayo+and+teo+songs++2019'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/87599292813.pdf'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the heuristics strongly suggest a lure to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=ayo+and+teo+songs++2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.dannasdogs.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453615/8639146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canbuildimmigration.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163736/jasit_zafajig_konaburawuw_pulale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.priestlakehaven.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637546/javepumepitafob-lisitovero-jezafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.faithfestus.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380842/muzorudogate_fekejikugonuwid.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/1/0433/1631/4277/files/87599292813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9635/7530/files/36063395435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8621/7365/files/figevejixavenaxotulexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4252/9695/files/59150705731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9578/4600/files/kepozadanikalunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1322/6139/files/7612454076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6219/7400/files/kebotebiwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4198/0567/files/xaxumagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2623/files/10081375497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1637/1867/files/10246069129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/rejimovoridaduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4908/2264/files/87781517176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/10217245918.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE0 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 761c45321731f907eec7eea62bdd7fde654bbbfc2f9651a7600b8ebdfad45269
font_01_sfnt_off00006c86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C86 3232 bytes
SHA-256: 299ccbd244173198cf8fdd885ae38931f76548a680b1e85fc8db4fb6d5cf7448
font_02_sfnt_off000079a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A1 10580 bytes
SHA-256: c49c506ef4d503efb60bb72057ece72d7aef542c7d29e68fb437f7dea546617f
font_03_sfnt_off00009df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DF2 16364 bytes
SHA-256: 4931c3d288e3ed5544613b42d530a3d8d5f0e2847844b11b99683414a34d9777