Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f751e229a18e2c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 04:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8319b00d13371493d1fc59a79e523855 SHA-1: 7d42a913feb757b52795f78709c684ccad7b4349 SHA-256: 3f751e229a18e2c32dd0cb8fbc933ead01432ab1a9ce2c600722412890ce202b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and text related to merging PDF files, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used for creating PDFs from web content, which could facilitate this redirection.

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=fusionner+fichiers+pdf+en+ligne+gratuit In PDF document text
    • http://files.globalwarmingvector.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776602/2418340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.feastcookingschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/2679036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allstarskaraoke.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681694/3645021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cttntraumatraining.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453241/xumivomezitazawitotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethanylutheranrlf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381819/sizumomonogup.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/1/0433/1870/6341/files/fejaravogubudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9415/5170/files/36817059095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1635/files/50009274711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8516/7766/files/duxilenunuzazamonadilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/bikini_body_guide_week_1_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nanejixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/99074520255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7883/5606/files/45447967489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3023/9637/files/antianemic_drugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5386/7427/files/woropobupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8038/3653/files/bls_american_heart_association_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7537/1162/files/seralewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5637/3670/files/brassica_juncea_medicinal_uses.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_off000062fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FA 5372 bytes
SHA-256: e3571da0eb25abdb726a51a60096b69b2402f26cc4422f6a5dbaadfff06741f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000753e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x753E 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 4fc9a86f45dd87acfbd9fd328228d555544a60440fa7e5395c2fd68afebfd275