Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e3726c98d24f3d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 19:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 56e6cf9f943394e1a13308210dafb20b SHA-1: 738c2d3a837ae34d0a1e142b37fbd078e7fe8840 SHA-256: 9e3726c98d24f3d01e945471ca63ce8ad570bf4f192fd5e139900f300f5f071c
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.ru/pify?keyword=www+f+video'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to a malicious site for a scam or phishing operation.

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.ru/pify?keyword=www+f+video In PDF document text
    • http://files.platinumdancecompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739393/3236644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karenpikedesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856547/8973545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.akomaarts.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739776/44661e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.accessyouranswers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814258/rabozamulojutu.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/1/0433/6913/6280/files/78846231090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8307/1650/files/89957663193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0319/1194/files/dragonball_z_flashgame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/86915759895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1705/1048/files/48920679347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0728/files/35623910129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/73368483692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76588695657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0671/4268/files/sentry_safe_models.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_off00009f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F5D 10744 bytes
SHA-256: f2d23ac404e02aafc5f5a517538a315f7fa8690bb5b4679b9e25d46c6f633874
font_01_sfnt_off0000c2a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A3 4552 bytes
SHA-256: 511a74d342cb2cc21b84f953cc2cc786a0f57beb0468e4d8978f1e0b03391c21
font_02_sfnt_off0000d24f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24F 14020 bytes
SHA-256: 04aaa80f60a4f623fc441300d811b375ccecd3ce21b2cee4915f57f10c5d2c21