Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c706ed4ed9a7b2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-09-21 18:57:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4c74efdc55ede50f3270bbb4c72c51c8 SHA-1: abc6650d0f75fe45c14af2498c40fba5a3ca0ed1 SHA-256: 3c706ed4ed9a7b2fc29e2410c86129c7db141834d1ce26f271664c1a6f91e226
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=robert+lawson+simplisafe', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a social engineering lure related to SimpliSafe. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

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.me/wix?keyword=robert+lawson+simplisafe In PDF document text
    • http://files.liquid-components.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637020/pupadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dosozogaz.goldaes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/606088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4d71023a-2f0a-492a-abec-12ab43d0a1c0.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_a0b2273d16d74551880ded9627f8cd70.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c01c6828-6488-488a-8be8-784a43650f9b.filesusr.com/ugd/2ca09c_4a0cab6b89564689b5cfbae33dd05707.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8daffdb7-b95f-4860-865d-fe7ec77ec3c9.filesusr.com/ugd/9058e5_22c4a17998e74fe88f89ca2d681b4fe0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba90ac3c-6372-4a74-8bcc-6cd7daa1bd33.filesusr.com/ugd/fac845_fb978828666d410a9717ccbba8a911bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0755/7275/files/google_spreadsheet_macro_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2635/files/soxegiwezorekitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/8072/2848/files/93148787325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7675/5349/files/board_bring_up.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0100/1630/files/9989718432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8170/9206/files/pobejoloxomiwugotulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5759/4011/files/4009261014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1824/8601/files/morexavug.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_off0000621c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621C 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 24fdd4887a7f555ca93042233e5fc950305379a047171aca7f73ca89fce6131e
font_01_sfnt_off00007410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7410 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 9856c6a8529e0d27e032a0757391c5dfb17e24c7acfba617d25a6c178fc25ac8