Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b8ad329a8512782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 886404f878f94c524a570061f8a0f7fc SHA-1: c1c7777c7bd7e0e4aa775c43d287ccf28cf12439 SHA-256: 3b8ad329a85127823e7b0bbea9f535738638fbbf8e011ea364e8b3f764f9baed
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged for containing a malicious redirector link and a link farm. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=snow+leopard+fact+sheet, is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a broad distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is the delivery mechanism.

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.ru/pify?keyword=snow+leopard+fact+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.drsunnyimwang.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382141/140128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nijaxe.wisteria-cottage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776068/bexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apriloliviaroskos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776343/5590168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitaza.swcfcu.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/5682287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3671/7735/files/air_pollution_project_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6566/files/90365469181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5142/files/fuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72707516801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0445/2246/files/10019426824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2991/4012/files/grammar_worksheet_grade_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7430/files/basic_accounting_interview_questions_and_answers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7078/2614/files/swarm_robotics_report_in.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: apriloliviaroskos.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000096df.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x96DF 17944 bytes
SHA-256: e86f69ab3d757b34d77f77772b691abd25ecb7c14446fed027c07bf828fc3116
font_00_sfnt_off000061bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BF 5440 bytes
SHA-256: e0db707b58de281a69852dde688796c53848642b066f1470693bb4467a23b29d
font_01_sfnt_off00007441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7441 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 40fb0c1c84cc4c6eebf19cf8a25fda9c6feab096e26a14b0d23b7d3ee1e7085b
font_03_sfnt_off0000b13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13E 3328 bytes
SHA-256: 0177dc9fed6e485210c38b6cb340191c30ab54e7e7caebf7152274724facc80c