Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f55ea9f83efc266…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 15:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d20cb1d61843e29af2ce5e418cafafd SHA-1: ae778b1dca5b504e81462bd5cc3b5770ad499018 SHA-256: 3f55ea9f83efc2669b51ad0400e3405536ab042e282486f84a6e08884af95d33
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=biguanides+davis+pdf', is flagged as a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be largely metadata rather than user-readable content, suggesting its purpose is not informational but rather to host these links.

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/pify?keyword=biguanides+davis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.childrensmarketatthemill.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682040/bonoripo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.renaissancesingersretreat.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969999/9275181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gapco.online/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712127/ac0265cc3778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myremio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695698/zevufiritip.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/1/0428/6706/4998/files/51287292187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9699/8048/files/mevofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/88295493325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8476/7641/files/kireweteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1003/files/20132428028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7204/files/wogisoratopimilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6693/1862/files/23588387755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8792/1313/files/tafekumodiwalinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4743/5940/files/jaxujuzumuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/vekujaxumajizelepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5275/9200/files/93511877591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6091/2537/files/nepemifarizel.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17823 4884 bytes
SHA-256: 32171bd3ce2e33ada42e1ce924c7b2c076713adbeb68e02aaf8ce138fe31a31f
font_01_sfnt_off000188da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188DA 15264 bytes
SHA-256: eca5849db3e47f8d4b6001d07cd8c5d342c6cedef25672b76c9c56a7480098bc
font_02_sfnt_off0001b948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B948 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 9759ce8d6b03285eaaf0b3a467cae172b6556f7d7d175f3d646a9f0b73e2040d