Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b54709222dfd74c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 00:41:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d694ce0afc5caf73110f5b8d2b8dd0f SHA-1: bb371feae239c59566e83ccf514e527d5554f8fb SHA-256: 3b54709222dfd74c827a1bfafbf4100b3bbfd7be765a8a713c6abbe9c62eba92
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=legal+size+laminating+sheets+walmart'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm techniques used to obscure malicious redirects.

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=legal+size+laminating+sheets+walmart In PDF document text
    • http://files.shellyliedtke.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969424/5734531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geparaw.carinagossele.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/7303114.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/viborovikumowenaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6604/1244/files/86014578763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/libro_para_aprender_ingles_facil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3753/5906/files/vibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1154/4987/files/beden_dili_kitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9604/7783/files/giwonutunimarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6717/1223/files/89529353618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1272/6677/files/81443521115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/43603034081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0927/2990/files/ocean_ofs_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8735/4270/files/xiduwegodimukedolelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0006/0310/files/57977014811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4017/8333/files/17675362834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6409/0006/files/64508151075.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_off00007242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7242 5180 bytes
SHA-256: f120df66af58537141e1a1162bfdecb6e080e0c228acbecdae6f7e74f5f08d6e
font_01_sfnt_off000083cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83CC 10744 bytes
SHA-256: c8fc2a280424c6baa2a17a2fab3d70f8ab65bbbe66e5c3b319db704648233762

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