Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35d8368c14a59c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a638a13d371ba051287d3d2eac8474a1 SHA-1: 816e1338831088f9fe4c2a607a2dd39048c69b9f SHA-256: a35d8368c14a59c81fb66f9746f11637724bfb80e10232524aec4e5b1f306298
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=malaria+parasite+picture+pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on malicious links. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not 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.cc/pify?keyword=malaria+parasite+picture+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.handmadebylouisa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775827/25f7f89e987e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ondragonwingsstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398046/16d36d066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.foundationsofadolescentministry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408027/baligaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saidivinefoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/motofime.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/1/0427/7708/4070/files/41744283656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/lareribiramiridesegibejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1682/2692/files/bezolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/dadaxijidubabegix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7261/8657/files/12530236442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7977/0019/files/pugemoxefokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6107/6375/files/49973582515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2484/0861/files/23100520196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9749/6477/files/guletubalegovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1657/6424/files/sewedipadofesolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7712/files/33335106106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/87332244180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1959/0040/files/senaxosodigomi.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A03 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad80da5bdfa007c34d092f40f74da861784d4edf933180a81abb3729b7c65e4
font_01_sfnt_off00008ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA8 10740 bytes
SHA-256: f45ea0f0ed66011f7bfb7637d38493200e57a433874c294b4deca7847cb0f236