Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3238b81c9c38126…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:32:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 80b959df2cbe8400c776a8ed6c01475d SHA-1: 8ea7de5090d2159716f95159ee781a8c9c79f46d SHA-256: a3238b81c9c3812648b82330026f1a78b81ef616f56bdca67ef170079d9b91c2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to potentially malicious redirectors. The primary heuristic firing indicates a PDF redirector link to 'ttraff.cc', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cambridge+b2+speaking+exam+pdf', suggesting a lure related to a Cambridge B2 speaking exam. The numerous embedded links, including those hosted on Shopify, are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination.

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=cambridge+b2+speaking+exam+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rabbitrailsupply.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775537/b6cb522c50a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.healguyana.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740073/2170180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dutisu.pagesustainability.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856917/3137921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.holistichealthactivation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406520/7827784.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/1/0431/6630/2376/files/nitewubedugupoxitaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8471/7979/files/sizekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/gezesonisavowiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4416/6037/files/kidubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4883/6004/files/wilaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8600/2843/files/xuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/70147111547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/49527251737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0728/files/fuvenerumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/bonitas_bonsave_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0734/3779/files/65574684808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4115/2421/files/2682000070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/717233502.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_off000076a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A2 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 6eabd8b8b008dcb97713e40a702318f960c3f8ef5a6b927f7f6fb9fa62cbd190
font_01_sfnt_off000088c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88C0 10772 bytes
SHA-256: d474e78b45897706fe48f4b8bdea9a143e3119c24e5449df4f5f63ed1f1ef779
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC45 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333