Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dad519e731f7efe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67d03bfea8bbea3a231275d496a63e37 SHA-1: c3902e8b4c1184aaccbb734780cfa8702ccbade3 SHA-256: 3dad519e731f7efea2bb1062f1679ad0b1d91744427a5db424d4de9ea990ba6b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is used to lure users into downloading potentially malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to 'Apache openoffice 4.1.2', suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of a link farm heuristic further indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=apache+openoffice+4.+1+2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.aforcapacity.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874400/7155143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fimepas.grmfinalportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695535/wajixugujoxaxanagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wessworldwide.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164310/4689085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadow.perfectionslandscape.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/6316497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fredswansonbooks.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815123/3852127.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/1/0432/5625/0525/files/34370441576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0293/4942/files/answering_interview_questions_on_confidentiality.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4939/2030/files/cross_multiplication_method_examples_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0833/4744/files/navasatifiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6322/1155/files/deliberao_arsesp_732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2422/3141/files/prevention_of_occupational_hazards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/47568557484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7491/0376/files/15891259229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3781/files/1815068603.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
🗂 Part of campaign: fredswansonbooks.com 6 samples

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE8 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 3e3122e43cd4f6f94a8d5ee01df3f58a989aebfbb82e77c7c91385e036a4f32c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4A 11504 bytes
SHA-256: db3c24de621e2c428578b17ba2abe491803522930f4a30528c0b3e6a3337480b

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