Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3517f39c739f646…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-01 14:18:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1de7c11e52d9640be0a34256feebbbce SHA-1: cb5338b1f4a80554b9643875325b893f9e78475c SHA-256: a3517f39c739f646ef66d3113a20c9fff746e7e217299b6025f1489c1665e6b2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button for 'Bull zip pdf writer'. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is known to host redirectors. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of the payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.com/pify?keyword=bull+zip+pdf+writer In PDF document text
    • http://files.miltonwvumc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/xewirigugomik_gorefagenagi_zabuvon_fanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lampleylaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856071/beparizesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lizbalfourbasketmaking.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696155/8a63fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studiobhub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163980/c2cf83110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefilamentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/fakesijerisaz.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/1/0435/8651/9195/files/5251015243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/kosonezidelabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/jolepemasarujawabasudupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2084/5210/files/74807812374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3816/9498/files/87986622263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4421/6727/files/71629199162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1240/7967/files/samasemerusupekopove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zorugeligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3414/7989/files/radanesiweramanuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7895/9775/files/majubodolubiwositum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/fijoz.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_off000063d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D6 4172 bytes
SHA-256: 5c0aa11ace5c7af8c5a1ae5ac26a3b58190e218fc721484669a0fd26c134ede4
font_01_sfnt_off0000727f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x727F 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 22f362c3f7f9cb4d10fd3297127061854ba1eac3bf087dd40b24d9df0173be8e
font_02_sfnt_off00008323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8323 12156 bytes
SHA-256: e3f7e2e5dc822862f91ec67c95e43431dd897449fab84a54462e6bc9657cb44f