Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fad1cbbb79f2d79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:22:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b398d5297b730a1fe94e54664102c3dd SHA-1: d4818097b9f8619e462af83843e63150353270a2 SHA-256: 3fad1cbbb79f2d79d4663248d5aa24272c1254089a0720fc2f6fb19f8dc4cf81
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 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=databases%20pdf%20download'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of a link farm heuristic further suggests malicious intent to distribute 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/wb?keyword=databases%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.laughter4wellbeing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409498/5c9feef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.geraldinefirequeen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453810/ranoromosisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northeastinsulation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/takolofi_waludamas_fufebinusune_liborexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mosquitomaster.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606636/7449760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.villalta-artgallery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680974/nimanevorifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7352/3112/files/uses_of_bitter_leaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1559/files/11423692156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/tuperuwapejusoruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/53804769471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/extract_m3u8_from_website.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/vakopisurasotamedime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9960/9505/files/4366441794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7637/files/doxifanisopategoxobexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9200/9365/files/kimulukubosoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0029/9683/files/gizugasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3685/9813/files/hunger_games_3_kniha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8330/8955/files/lawaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4939/4080/files/rixepelabakukenatesikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6241/8847/files/sezavarolesapasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5702/9019/files/92381608271.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7051 4908 bytes
SHA-256: a5296fdef09d247b137d02b567a549f03ec8811f3716bcdc15219b4e00bcdd10
font_01_sfnt_off0000811f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x811F 14068 bytes
SHA-256: 902a63df20af60aa63cebd10e03104c28aab8e753f3055339618e3cafc604e15
font_02_sfnt_off0000adaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADAA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176