Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e559b2c68392ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-26 03:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 739122c3efdfff63b04119ab7204e511 SHA-1: 5edcc0e8d502fdba70a6712e49a77c0640b1cef3 SHA-256: 3e559b2c68392ce23307345d5e5ab2fa7b4780bacf2517f53ca0fbf84c900813
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to a known malicious URL. Additionally, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify but point to potentially malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=industrial+accident+the+story+of+wax, which is likely intended to trick users into clicking it by appearing to be related to an industrial accident. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or redirection strategy.

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=industrial+accident+the+story+of+wax In PDF document text
    • http://lamipemi.trinibnb.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/dowofezizekusizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gateways2heritage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453512/xavupanepujutirulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.posture4life.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382395/3809411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekokif.goldenreiki.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/dorebevofejinezeg.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/1/0434/7274/8710/files/abel_tasman_national_park_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/78907474610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/18680213955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3192/4629/files/95827312893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6203/4589/files/35526127424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6072/9758/files/unity_web_player_firefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6415/6314/files/fiwuzelatome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/99672366570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9582/5320/files/topic_about_afghanistan_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4321/6789/files/cisco_sf95d-_16_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4689/9607/files/stewart_calculus_8th_edition_solutions_manual.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_off0000761c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x761C 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 6b1bcbbb621f4b377151febc8340a2b0a302d8c87c6445b9da94a38427bd04cc
font_01_sfnt_off00008830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8830 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 8493ceb3ba880c2440eeb685721dbf233877e145b46af608fed09dcb10536a87

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