Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b6fad6458f28011…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 16:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 671b8d13257af515707014b6ba791f38 SHA-1: 8d87af84cd4ce4025e88bf68d9a4fbe132994f61 SHA-256: 3b6fad6458f28011f180863024ee3e71fc3ca909e0b5dd3409d41f539521b5eb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources hosted on platforms like Shopify and other domains. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=wedding+march+felix+mendelssohn+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links and the critical redirector link strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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=wedding+march+felix+mendelssohn+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.carpetcleaningvisalia.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740515/1465868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnjfrederick.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740249/sawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessicaharperyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606727/1298821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.socta.info/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/nebanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.developmentmedia.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/191367.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/1/0431/2514/5760/files/noxijavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/pijazaverunuxolonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4992/files/povenigejojirijimidona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3764/files/keller_isd_home_access.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5598/0439/files/38686505442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9758/files/ut_schedule_planner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4918/7493/files/baldur_s_gate_descent_into_avernus_4chan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96951977507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/91631610807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1400/2587/files/tiberil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9717/7768/files/tapokegubizidemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0859/6900/files/39071527015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3459/7784/files/63859963947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/57284498135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7415/0809/files/vagimesi.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B3 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 1b59a1927e93c24e79478dc07ed4ca6f26c84fddf236aa6f292a46541be2c2c8
font_01_sfnt_off000078d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78D6 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 49a405808cb74112801953c9694b8e1ec4912afd9faebd088c5c4d5142527c20