Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b83ab87852b6e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 11:07:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe4fc01e9915a9b217fcb8bb04963c79 SHA-1: 8bf8d06d9ff53418e95a54b2305bcc60fecfa67e SHA-256: 3b83ab87852b6e92658d48154216dbadeae3682445320f65ec5cf2f3b5e9f701
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=interviewing+skills+training+for+managers+pdf', which is also listed as a suspicious URL. The file also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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=interviewing+skills+training+for+managers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xatoso.themilehighmacs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384284/0bd2ad06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inakadojo.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856160/vupeduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dugix.taaonline.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483337/3d436d4560.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/1/0430/5544/8213/files/jebisifizopevurunojewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9331/9079/files/nesuximugexiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/mapinalomedowexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86662201832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1068/files/collateral_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7519/8373/files/32502293729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8055/6452/files/62296542071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2218/6656/files/bobrick_b_2111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6758/6213/files/bioconversion_technology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7861/9029/files/analise_combinatoria_enem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5300/7526/files/oktava_mk-_319.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_off00005e55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E55 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 99e7ef8badca0b1739b0c43469de19f2aefe27b4f9631aec75dfcd0f64c468f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000711b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x711B 10200 bytes
SHA-256: c3f9da2a26b398765c04f85d0ba514b4ccaad9504e1f72441f6b892773170ef9

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