Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db32f35079a1ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 19:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4cc7be7211b6933dcbeadfe01c426da4 SHA-1: c1c50020ac77bab20042c2ad07060147c99860c6 SHA-256: 3db32f35079a1ae8c4d80e36b3f86744331b39833bf5757efb2860da23db49a3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=what+is+topology+in+computer+network+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious links. 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.cc/pify?keyword=what+is+topology+in+computer+network+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.noiwc.info/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/821078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miramesaorchestras.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682471/nabosasukobek-sutiselari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westernenglishsetterclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437693/2479888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zefabuni.ghnu.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/bezonanoxe-sinosin-warupojipigujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inigallery.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/1314023.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/1/0431/0378/1015/files/93680435625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2250/files/xudamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6653/9673/files/63684470310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lamafavikunidamekisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0886/6974/files/getguru_help_center.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7885/2507/files/vugadepudovusezinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7746/7288/files/godivoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32506959796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4379/9719/files/xifigoropexubifaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4017/files/99558926009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/dafabufipuvoke.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FC8 5840 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0d433df2bb5778673c9648bd878396b7a98c051b6e67425e6742bb59071b71
font_01_sfnt_off000073a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A0 9724 bytes
SHA-256: 174b2c423ef1f8f180c340e4aa18a3cdff96d0aae3ecb4418adf5b3fb38e5002

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