Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff26c34652e95b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4739e34cd674b358f2ae413532531ea0 SHA-1: a733270b2b1534d420a14c068b7685e7d2ca7abb SHA-256: 3ff26c34652e95b79aa050b7ad3daf2c4684d880119f2664aebf06a150ea8f26
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to 'anxiety and depression pdf'. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=test+de+zung+ansiedad+y+depresion+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barura.victoriayoga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/3674860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhondastruminger.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071076/1562942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tephracurlycoatedretrievers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776511/6419297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stfranciscentre.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379149/fozon.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3612/0990/files/changing_to_word_document_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wunize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3504/9640/files/blouse_cutting_and_stitching_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9480/2581/files/93273155587.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/jovafamomimivuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3512/1048/files/csgo_video_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5719/8742/files/british_council_preparation_and_practice_tests_for_ielts_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9296/3484/files/77461853324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6998/9279/files/jogavudifowimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1626/3592/files/wetivazuwibe.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_off00004fcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FCC 5276 bytes
SHA-256: ee462b1e0f949472cf0bdde4988449ae02bfeb245133fea89f4434aeeccd01ee
font_01_sfnt_off000061df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61DF 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 83825b45966681a05c2de5046cb0ad97a601e3462ec5238e6f2d03c34fea8d50