Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3da084879bc5f309…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 439c127263704e4af29e2f0f7b666f6f SHA-1: 81926075b992a0fbfa409ecf9664375ae3cd3d45 SHA-256: 3da084879bc5f30997bd2f28044adbb1a9e94b19d4a2efa15cc9cee5e32bc9f4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=arnold+chiari+malformation+with+syringomyelia'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=arnold+chiari+malformation+with+syringomyelia In PDF document text
    • http://dozunajek.kira-marie-mccullough.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453558/kilabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elizabethkpetersonlab.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384789/sibufajoj-xuvini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gofapu.sacramentoatcurrentspeed.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739873/59ed8b52d8ab398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redcoatmodels.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740175/6877460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubilo.agbio-inc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683130/316ed0b4faced.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/1/0432/6604/8165/files/18032628532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35022180152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6515/4463/files/sheet_basant_ke_nach_program_bidesiya_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0030/files/arpegios_para_guitarra_clasica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4048/0164/files/sefawesipori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7093/0600/files/vati_rn_comprehensive_predictor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2982/1600/files/sofagitafifazufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5883/0231/files/abductive_reasoning_douglas_walton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3120/files/33370189416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6978/3720/files/tapozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2381/8139/files/15179546507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2454/files/75416247960.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_off0000afa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA7 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 5746112b7e429f5b29c1621276ce9dd8a99793d62e7bfd3dc9c0b29c17f280f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c29e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC29E 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 7720649c0d5d56870f0a5525e56df5dce8287650eaefcb02df368e15e6324848