Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3948f7951bf5687…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b64aeedb092b52141e110128828efaf SHA-1: 122e4e318cbbc0a6614cec7c317dae67cc20a15e SHA-256: c3948f7951bf5687bc6df62b957796f751020980fc715dfcf1dc30d300b26be4
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or viewer to access content. It embeds numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chrome+plugins+chromium+pdf+viewer', indicating a redirection attempt to a malicious site, likely to deliver malware or phish for credentials.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=chrome+plugins+chromium+pdf+viewer In PDF document text
    • http://files.winslowschoolofmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776110/9942009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fourpointsinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379591/bisexej_dugepubig_vovarigenata_jusutarijebupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danswell.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813612/xefidaton_gixenitanoz_bafigofuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angeloflove.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739353/7fbdae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medicinewheelrecovery.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407493/wolojejasi.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/1/0434/7245/3797/files/sibefurejawatunisagixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6181/4172/files/91807641722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3755/6899/files/55646978524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5222/1091/files/35843710847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/58734136758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bagubiginapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2552/files/75893931458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1910/7480/files/levolexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/wofakedijatokesopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/runurogukanetib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4834/3464/files/apprendre_la_conjugaison_anglaise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/63665901949.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_off000178ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178CA 5416 bytes
SHA-256: f84d8b0fe8681a1056cf2810db3e709833d7a1bd6e357a1269c43bc0f7f8641c
font_01_sfnt_off00018b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B27 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 81a68633da641c505cc3b399d73e535317c194f9823da29f4cb17ad9d07d51e8