Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b99b028d0298c2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46b4c72297ce3bde548d6521c58e110c SHA-1: 5246d2f99586ee98f95a7bd715167599c49565ed SHA-256: 3b99b028d0298c2e1f9080e0a397580cdd203cbfe141388fcf0f548fbc2a0906
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a lure related to 'Because of Winn-Dixie worksheets printable'. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating it's part of a larger SEO poisoning or link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=because+of+winn+dixie+worksheets+printable In PDF document text
    • http://files.juliaschombergart.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606815/gigamulavezosexoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saseseto.gezzostruck.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163653/wipotubulurajavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westernheartsracing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/9341068.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/1/0431/4755/9067/files/gopowisumalotezedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8837/0077/files/26196581130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/54764681324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70277109097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6356/5718/files/pufiperenotefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9815/9769/files/66103873079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0785/8072/files/labemimoxodalukewixepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1638/files/vapozivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4246/3126/files/27907851770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7255/files/vuwutisubozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5858/files/92979753875.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_off00006070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6070 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 81d88b6b39428e1269ec67b6e38c817b37ad47f718115015c09dfa4a2c4bb129
font_01_sfnt_off000073b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B2 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 54670aa93a2d1a3832cc75d1cd15d1123cd7dd45f23ac10871fe84a149ed8adb

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