Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f6de2e102eb4fb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-07-28 06:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9b9b2b4ccf9013cfb9f70d2d8a8b56e SHA-1: d35b74992d5f4707cd9627bde96a93e816d778a5 SHA-256: 3f6de2e102eb4fb64cf5a0e16f53173979fe4660273fcdfadf51a2c35901e0fa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) known for malicious activity. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of 'algebra worksheets ks3' suggests a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the intent to create a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content via benign-looking Shopify URLs.

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=algebra+worksheets+ks3 In PDF document text
    • http://files.svcmblackmountain.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/pavobodakin_woxumisebosipa_wawerusuroxu_gufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jflesher.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874610/pavizezus-moduge-bopetolalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yeagershairstudiospa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739069/8593748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sgionet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874413/zujojunejiguwimurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.learninglives.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380618/362727b5.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/1/0427/7207/0556/files/vijexilijodetuxekepoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3975/8235/files/vusuremawosujarowapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6536/0034/files/fajupewomuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9199/2481/files/63405174688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7070/files/20296967370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0922/0501/files/34488852674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4258/5241/files/zufegidogeduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8835/4207/files/podisejivelepabovovepimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1858/3192/files/jumaluzabatadodufivuwiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7541/2902/files/5849975880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2969/1558/files/noveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7317/4680/files/17788906437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2008/2590/files/famifezolijiposedidibig.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F1C 5032 bytes
SHA-256: dafe520c572a58ca3adfabfe19440ec447f3e2fc95d51aefd94352ddd8adb083
font_01_sfnt_off00007061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7061 9904 bytes
SHA-256: 92094eae009f02d25bb32533891dd8d6a79d6ebd25032d118d1aa8d098ac3b02