Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b16cc81f03dffe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:04:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0eaab58eefe78e1c6f8a7268e6bf8abc SHA-1: 2ea14678530fec275da3eb88e78da71443a7d40a SHA-256: 3b16cc81f03dffe6ca0c030b3374b3772fe84387ba73aede99f452f7f0e9b2d2
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.ru/pify?keyword=well+behaved+wave+function+pdf'. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=well+behaved+wave+function+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dfwcprtrainingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776826/bofawewunumumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusob.walterslawpc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/c94dc5b12672d68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tonyhardindesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407901/kemilupotiloxesolosu.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/1/0431/1682/2692/files/jinusisuwinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1473/3480/files/writing_algebraic_expressions_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1480/files/96366696491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7792/5019/files/17593786488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/knowing_god_intimately_joyce_meyer_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9252/4702/files/78410519916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7746/8327/files/zenexarusokisarigexojuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0389/6217/files/my_greatest_achievement_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7873/8335/files/bigurufojoferawazexifuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2696/3865/files/regex_to_nfa_ocaml.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1658/5379/files/12335584030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5549/6866/files/5250207038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/zemuvip.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off00015857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15857 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 97291ab046a85cb0ef4862cf48bf2b318dab10d12f47edc9680f8e9bbb77edce
font_01_sfnt_off00016a23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A23 6460 bytes
SHA-256: 5075c91efde21d990529effc03f7642f56a66ae6fa0970819f8488fdb80962b3
font_02_sfnt_off000179e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179E9 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 64259ff9a08ff1a9876cad93f5380dcf0abf6e6e6066760ebc2be360a43529e8
font_03_sfnt_off0001b0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B0EC 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 9a9ba8da44edd8f64b3bd8481bcace890a1795322a9114c6228e453d987f3dd9