Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67d3c78dfae27c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-27 15:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bceaf95ef9eda1de140b07cd070b363c SHA-1: 18edc55c53ce32674d2f634fed35175675ea48d1 SHA-256: 67d3c78dfae27c18c2307539acd6b99e0f7a700139ab413dea2fc8307e51936c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm strategy, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=sword+of+summer In PDF document text
    • http://dukuzif.fendragonsandmore.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/xusiri.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/1/0455/6849/1685/files/33267516479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2837/2904/files/38603409531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1772/2280/files/21021663371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3193/6674/files/5723265333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0240/4769/files/hotel_california_acoustic_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8270/3257/files/dotidotesoxuvoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/7710/8647/files/malayala_manorama_calendar_2020_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4280/files/difference_between_secured_and_unsecured_loans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5915/8940/files/premiere_pro_keyboard_shortcuts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/2591/5045/files/musica_mariah_carey_without_you.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
🗂 Part of campaign: fendragonsandmore.com 4 samples

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7903 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 81d2e508644df3ebaf995a2852c07b72a4f909d4a01e7e5eb1122bdec90c3250
font_01_sfnt_off00008a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A03 10148 bytes
SHA-256: afc07ab79c014ae8cc5a1cd9bf9041d9880e27c07f21f3d3cf1136ab3fb2ebd2

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