Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3baf921cd8c0d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 16:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab25f9c4a7c20a4e4cb808526be45504 SHA-1: c4d8c81fc57ce57a528c0f3785f918db48394e3f SHA-256: c3baf921cd8c0d1a9f761d85d368dadebce9c87cc838e639041a548f434e466f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, masquerading as a resource for engineering books. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=automobile+engineering+book+by+kirpal+singh+pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other potentially benign Shopify links, suggesting a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to the malicious site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery or execution.

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.ru/pify?keyword=automobile+engineering+book+by+kirpal+singh+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.addictionmadison.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/rotesoj_dibelawevurag_dagomezexuvuful_jixagesufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atitrainingstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/pefewago-vuzobadetumixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/68375344147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3445/0840/files/barukezojitaxafepawife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4748/files/senodiwuzokexedopififipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/forestry_mod_1._10._2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7712/files/84752062400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9578/files/beach_buggy_racing_apk_mod_rexdl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8106/4853/files/how_to_set_up_act_ffxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7551/8107/files/lullabye_billy_joel_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8699/5863/files/demewemenetutusegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3033/9735/files/20005027170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6463/1195/files/balanceamento_redox_exercicios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4376/3862/files/cartoon_hd_app_for_android_tv_box.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_off000060fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FC 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 410bf8c76c6ab3f1f915b31b0ccdc687ecaba6ef5619cc699dc26ea2f1a8e57c
font_01_sfnt_off000073f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73F5 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 67ef4c36307ae3b11a5e86ffd014eb7a5073e9ebb28b58ff8d6b84b73e9f7dac
font_02_sfnt_off000096c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96C4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c