Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c3d46926b1d21e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:44:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3524124eeb786f7874bdb28f7e5b2087 SHA-1: dee487505ec3181d4652040cb6884291d3977e0f SHA-256: 8c3d46926b1d21e2c4c8fde245594c01398cd14fe117834d83862ea69aa046e7
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests an attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=agriculture+pdf+agrimoon, which redirects to a PDF hosted on cdn.shopify.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=agriculture+pdf+agrimoon In PDF document text
    • http://files.brianlundgren.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438397/9bf7c8d04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christineshanks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437982/6064072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thecelticoracle.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452944/purifi_ginefiri_xuduto_fafoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/mugeziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0143/6569/files/against_the_gods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8795/4073/files/nabamotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9489/files/70396324616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3784/1813/files/types_of_long_term_debt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/probability_measures_on_metric_spaces.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0469/6472/files/how_to_use_digital_multimeter_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/25369395153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7967/files/94685020037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7832/8224/files/lesimilolibupegozabima.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000602a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602A 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 0528428380074cd5962ee62744fcab8acab5f01f1bc9359e865612722824629d
font_01_sfnt_off0000720b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720B 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 6539b129c5cd894636dc8f40f53a156c00c8f46378ab4f137c96d687a1cff6ed
font_02_sfnt_off00007d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D66 2716 bytes
SHA-256: 87284a45e49bde777a970880cbf576a1c21f9fcfd8383a9e73332573e3ac9e22
font_03_sfnt_off00008923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8923 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab04ffcece0ce1ea2068215e70f0f12d9bb65637f94866e6320da9778cde9fc
font_04_sfnt_off0000ac0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC0D 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 8ddad8c66f4a694d0a202ac378383eccfc6500bf8cf17f4a89ea9cf9cdd124b8