Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cc04a97a48e7ef6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 15:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 69160301702908491b48d4f677a6e595 SHA-1: c17b41f22341b229a1ae9c1ea09fa8c06651cf04 SHA-256: 3cc04a97a48e7ef61c7686db5aadc2eef98f48a60c0545cbdc14f11debe06cc9
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, a technique often used to inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=past+simple+question+form+exercises+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL, suggesting the intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing educational materials.

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=past+simple+question+form+exercises+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sabetudu.mizunagardens.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/6651835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tanditech.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740483/tabukowemumajebilafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westvillageclothing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407214/rigogiw-kupezufubuvop-kasuvagado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marshaclarkart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/550351a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindfulsomatictherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/puvuwoxi.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/1/0432/4088/2343/files/18121197300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0209/9873/files/telalizatedeliwuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69651331918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7353/6161/files/nedibamabawode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0755/7283/files/1153779587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5100/8671/files/nobofelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3360/files/basic_bodice_block_pattern_drafting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7082322425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0972/7912/files/fifa_16_free_packs.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C10 5496 bytes
SHA-256: ec62042e622ff1fdce49f41b52a381426089b1e129f0247e4c5a27784f56ee96
font_01_sfnt_off00005ea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EA5 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 1a4aa64233c86cf23852ca45ac247ae6b892f98827670a043768af82df2ec768
font_02_sfnt_off000080ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80EE 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d78d7cc1a68daa951b4fbccbcfb906d5a08ad384f187125596154666a45abe72

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