Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bdf3463a63e1e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 713cb281bcc1cf1c8c51a2716a00745f SHA-1: 0b9fccaf25850a67f050015a4bddc859b7010028 SHA-256: c3bdf3463a63e1e6c45730ac5686cf9520295654e16d51421b35d635c427a11a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=jordan%20peterson%2012%20rules%20for%20life%20pdf%20reddit`. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to trick the user into visiting a malicious site. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious redirector.

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.cc/wb?keyword=jordan%20peterson%2012%20rules%20for%20life%20pdf%20reddit In PDF document text
    • http://files.praysingministry.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710697/pagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.francisbongiovannilaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483154/voloramekaxoruton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gijug.voodoocosmetics.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/5228684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jewishnanaimo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683137/lesidujabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themanemonogramonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776499/dilug.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/1/0435/8009/6667/files/pejupotube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5915/1009/files/33701604636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0334/files/78569180508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3259/files/71837753269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5546/4104/files/forozavafobolapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pigagijewunafusigiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7368/3100/files/vifubusadipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4533/files/kuxokixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7097/0274/files/53860429113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8276/6750/files/descriptive_statistics_using_spss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1302/9540/files/84683286528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1464/files/fijulogezal.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_off000074bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BD 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 4d92dc7bba1ad224ba6bcecc1e39635916a712e7fa7dc30cc8eef29cad21df0a
font_01_sfnt_off00008686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8686 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 4a7f97e35ed7f460223fedcff98d3eabff000dc8092d43ce0d10dba0663f32b1

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