Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d4b389eabe1a75a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bd736d2f2adc96a9d5b3af9f1ad3f101 SHA-1: 304dc8eae184614ad7058c0302966cabb7fc32ed SHA-256: 3d4b389eabe1a75a4b13f00ed51d6e376e7854b017beb8c1396d46c246e2b824
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains and a primary redirector at ttraff.cc. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded URLs suggest a redirection chain designed to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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.cc/pify?keyword=how+to+make+calculator+in+javascript+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fashion-tights.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776162/076cf6f1d25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.connectedpropertyinvestment.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380641/jesaxezexopido_bagexowikagazup_fevabex_wuzabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.madtownrent.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/9885913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jjjohnsonauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437268/lotoxaboxubuw.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65294746239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1960/7962/files/75850758813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4869/5958/files/5765402384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4807/4405/files/95289714431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/30617095305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2156/5078/files/wolfgang_puck_pressure_oven_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2738/1924/files/sutifibenaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4764/1510/files/nejifebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3692/6374/files/kupemofubaluwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5815/0046/files/borders_for_word_documents.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4498/files/90734620543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6529/5526/files/gumexujupuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kenawuvotijogajutimev.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D2F 5552 bytes
SHA-256: c54df2de579c066bb31978b85483cb487fb944754f5b77e5dc454b30a4c63c51
font_01_sfnt_off0000a014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA014 15812 bytes
SHA-256: b59b3e5c06b01eb08d86c9f291fc1736594fc5c95f3349ab37abac6c7b26bc53
font_02_sfnt_off0000d26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26F 6076 bytes
SHA-256: 476a7f5ad4ca1955f8ba18bdbe3e5e1842c2b9bbc8bbe3e57526feecafd05314