Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e1f861f6fcdf45a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:38:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 94d0ad49574e6b9c73e51df03d00bc02 SHA-1: 2ee4a7991439ec9396457f6e077f1b10273055ee SHA-256: 3e1f861f6fcdf45a6b63355721a2df1f830187f466931e823a7d079108bb9448
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=graphing%20absolute%20value%20equations%20worksheet%20kuta', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

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.com/wb?keyword=graphing%20absolute%20value%20equations%20worksheet%20kuta In PDF document text
    • http://files.oakcreekzc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739039/jopunukinaj-ranapoxomilan-pupatisifuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yellowsubmariner.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606677/guritefe-ruwefizoxujasu-fewuduwus-gasagitevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puvaja.guideturisticheancona.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739845/gusasibogufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0496/6565/files/vabijinexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8459/2805/files/xfinity_com_norton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6848/9881/files/local_agenda_21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/71170019667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2151/6449/files/laxezakofigafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/anestesia_regional_con_ecografia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1289/7437/files/tumotubijabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/bafuluvufileraziwomutifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2334/2495/files/78291609274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7047/8746/files/xofekakizesireve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9465/0535/files/zagedulalibunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/beating_the_street_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3029/9292/files/nukeluvuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/96233857047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8155/6375/files/98813012362.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000059c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59C6 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 402683d7691fd837a629b94cf52925535d3fa79232e0ef07a8471db9906a75d5
font_01_sfnt_off00006c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C6D 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 28f80be03ed952351245014c6265080bac051691fb62c3e054c63c15a3fb5ea9
font_02_sfnt_off00008e82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E82 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3