Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f95d9f1dfbcb37e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 08:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6fb774efe6d553067a8dee7b52116226 SHA-1: 25ed2e01362d428308df1e08ed9625b582d225fc SHA-256: 3f95d9f1dfbcb37ebe3c47296648a63bcdd5bcda2de3b769aa1413dfea77e65b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with the primary one leading to a Shopify domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious content.

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=godless+netflix+parents+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.charteredengineers.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712508/6ae92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tijadep.850plants.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739344/gamiteduzalare-nodejezefago-rewuvej.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/1/0431/6761/3087/files/adjektivdeklination_ohne_artikel_bungen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2289/9608/files/legal_services_contract_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89647405972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/60383468977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9919/9390/files/adobe_reader_pro_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2297/4117/files/88386974887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8663/files/parexanusozijapelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2421/9293/files/tixezawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7300/files/34067951280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8877/3269/files/6768418581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1828/8284/files/rokadadapolerisemifoma.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_off0000677f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x677F 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 54c0e8322d1628d2c6c3031a147ff056163642cf244135bdead6b3689426a5f8
font_01_sfnt_off000079a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A7 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 52a329718bfae24c77b4cb39db6769ca9154c0f9846b71f8bcac9cfa46c7ed65