Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3277fafbabb67c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

350.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 14:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b307630f1cab9830b3b7e6160f18cfae SHA-1: 1c87233be5b08f689ceb7bb7a29d662240cb8bc9 SHA-256: a3277fafbabb67c83d84064535bbea8c3a48c8826115b4770bb8f2da203c5f17
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=manifesting+the+gifts+of+the+holy+spirit+pdf', is directly associated with this malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the URL and the topic of spiritual gifts, suggesting a social engineering lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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=manifesting+the+gifts+of+the+holy+spirit+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mariebanville.ca/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815004/87eaf550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainlaureltennisclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/4a190a9e95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keeptheflame.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380953/sazulipumakesapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainharvestfarmllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775803/tezusufowemesir.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/1/0431/6191/1458/files/zikivoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8461/9680/files/1952802213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6455/5675/files/zaxajujuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1271/6701/files/subuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2818/files/bukisulukotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7232/3737/files/how_to_open_a._db_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9854/6084/files/laxojoxodadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8750/4294/files/womofokutazadesaretuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/20411818479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9748/9572/files/45389935719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6441/6661/files/wet_hands_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8113/7316/files/fujorifamokizosonurukoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6630/files/58072849337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5213/7622/files/linux_combine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9409/8598/files/64710891142.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00053373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53373 5412 bytes
SHA-256: ff0fe1bc07b75bb10fd171ae73a9f6913b18758a49706cb45ef20672cefb83ae
font_01_sfnt_off000545ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x545EC 10448 bytes
SHA-256: fa0ef569770b20c6fcf647ba6a8d40fb2084008444090b7317bc6872e79d6e27

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