Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 968e3a6959b39902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06ebdadec8fa5b5a89e2a2a070b217c3 SHA-1: 00c3378aab35b72c4de01b65fc49f6a289cfeb12 SHA-256: 968e3a6959b3990227a3cd68071a38cb3c9300fc256bd0fb44ff53c34f1aeb8f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'vceguide networking fundamentals' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

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/pify?keyword=vceguide+networking+fundamentals In PDF document text
    • http://sirelawi.erasingculturalgenocide.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/tosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wosam.tallsprucefarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/d89288eb307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bookmobiledoorcounty.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813509/e260c922014bdd6.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/1/0431/5119/6315/files/pasalomigupebugukijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5220/3161/files/a_twist_of_the_wrist_the_motorcycle_roadracers_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/taylor_classical_mechanics_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/32273491133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5969/9109/files/34788514584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5537/3720/files/41961769489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8181/7495/files/shinee_ring_ding_dong_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/texomifovokufumasaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3897/3857/files/bootstrap_3_glyphicons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0034/7299/files/38990249887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3787/5614/files/cinemavilla_malayalam_movies_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4523/1515/files/79837970734.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_off00006a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2A 5344 bytes
SHA-256: befde6d07f237efbdb02abbcf20d47c38ee20a60a7378fb7fe1772d381db0b7e
font_01_sfnt_off00007c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C4E 9808 bytes
SHA-256: 058176731bd25f7c771423183acbd1ca7caf7d493fbe951035b1df7df6e06b51
font_02_sfnt_off00009dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DEA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3