Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f46c8bacf22d17a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ee98741ee746f5373db33951ac71d494 SHA-1: 9e6ba0c7ee9582994ae077b1e92ec2111e43e108 SHA-256: 3f46c8bacf22d17afedb0fbabba584789b8268e618c15480b137d7af0fefd1b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a malicious URL. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=minecraft+buildcraft+crafting+guide', indicating a lure to a potentially malicious site disguised as a Minecraft crafting guide. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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=minecraft+buildcraft+crafting+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.murdermysteryparties.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071167/balaxewixon_wivaram_kumur_lefidu.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/1/0432/6280/4136/files/encyclopedia_of_chart_patterns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1615/7344/files/arnold_schwarzenegger_soundboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4444/6118/files/vurerokileponepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7369/1045/files/apple_numbers_meal_plan_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9432/7975/files/88303178715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2635/7143/files/57007202719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/fenudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6482/6783/files/glossary_of_poetic_terms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5089/9368/files/jajifakovisamuzitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/31221338291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1987/9068/files/xamemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/75307748825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/zerigonaxulana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5646/3014/files/56398811651.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_off00009f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F9D 5156 bytes
SHA-256: a55a02db1017bc014af52872c27cc34567f0de7e7a92621e03a6e76ec972cd33
font_01_sfnt_off0000b12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB12B 10332 bytes
SHA-256: b5f1ef3fdd3a1ae5a0daf66b689e5246c48e15bac87d6f52dc23e7fcb0b84f4b

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