Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cd08ba439fc9000…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:39:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bfb4ff824cb19fac95ad146ab49519d2 SHA-1: aec210ea14f1ae7a4e45a3a50721211d5a3d5c72 SHA-256: 3cd08ba439fc900061f240b287e2ae9e57b902b31f427fe6ae1c5c9ad969cf23
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other URLs hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=p.+w.+atkins+physical+chemistry+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bellridgeahts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/5232eaab4de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nzplantservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776111/4412234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atyourservicelimosjax.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407445/627322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/fajupesujekipuruvusuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3723/7146/files/11738889860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3768/files/68364198968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7017/files/sediteveluxepumojelejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4666/6389/files/hotbird_satellite_channels_frequency_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5032/6421/files/livro_para_adestramento_de_ces.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6631/8230/files/joterukubozoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7706/5121/files/nccn_guidelines_breast_cancer_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5642/1269/files/pokemon_ruby_pokeblock_case.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gotisirifiwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3817/0523/files/tiger_river_spa_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7586/1656/files/astronomical_survey_in_civil_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6566/files/97118444332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8411/8171/files/zodabipujuxagok.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000630a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x630A 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 23299190b9e90593d3dd2254dd6b462e6c8d60044304c862b97b7961916513f7
font_01_sfnt_off00007529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7529 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 7a1680b630204c011e70fb7f9c604b5cf5cc69d1967f56561ccd12a957c4f6f2
font_02_sfnt_off0000974a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x974A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2