Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3df47606c2154550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:12:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bf5a34e51a9b0fce264ffed887411098 SHA-1: 0d5ff99ffb17cdcf9c6ae003937118de27b01189 SHA-256: 3df47606c2154550b2bedceb8c460369e11dda188be0525af360b88812895bfc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as content related to 'common core standards'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=common+core+standards+pdf+ela, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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=common+core+standards+pdf+ela In PDF document text
    • http://files.laurenfalksoprano.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/c1252f5a559a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whatnextshelly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407952/fbfad7aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libepise.submitis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740597/sazipafasefudaj.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/1/0440/8328/2070/files/bescherelle_descargar_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3033/2060/files/batch_convert_word_to_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2807/0052/files/padematoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8493/0462/files/jofodifukafuxewamazitarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4349/5841/files/jexukixazowarope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2115/3957/files/data_tab_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2613/6743/files/aceites_esenciales_metodos_de_extraccion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/82412645250.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_off000065bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BD 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 96a3a6b0825ad341c571f4cda3e43129541e9972e714e11ec474847d19e8ce0d
font_01_sfnt_off00007751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7751 9420 bytes
SHA-256: 48ae8870d5ca83c5cfaf07e6356a6f8bd54f37eb1f9f6768b38ea69fe32aa7ac

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