Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3f3758e8cdce866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a410562364aafef88fc23112f1e843b4 SHA-1: 0941469a82cdf5f7c26d502c888e4e4cc414d553 SHA-256: b3f3758e8cdce8662ed2f58e8f6b385c3f5b221cce923d94847b1fe7e0ea86d4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as legitimate documents, which is a common tactic for SEO link farms. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=benedictine+rule+of+life+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=benedictine+rule+of+life+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.powersflyfishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384718/nazalefevesaraxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.opobusiness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/3294b62945a62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papavipe.toplessdatingwithkaren.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/xifat_vonuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ambertennant1616.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/jumakis.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/1/0437/1261/0472/files/adobe_photoshop_7._0_shortcut_keys_in.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/regegidofidojofafitudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3970/9589/files/fedadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8731/2536/files/zz_top_sharp_dressed_man_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/38747411332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1204107997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1663/4016/files/pasaxomasekoxufemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4166/4669/files/hbse_class_12_syllabus_2020_20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7802/5377/files/42908896760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/46069461329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8428/2008/files/vastu_shastra_book_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2661/2378/files/stored_procedure_in_sql_tutorial_for_beginners.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_off00009724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9724 4812 bytes
SHA-256: 5dc79b4cb29571e2914d72fd9a54515b0ffa8341d430070c45fcfdae86c9d94f
font_01_sfnt_off0000a78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA78A 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 81d930165681bb8ab7f6c3793e6499f44696fcae33c4824865507c96728deb52

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