Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bdf9fe32265e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:42:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: faabb241fa63e191c9320c12dfc24996 SHA-1: c9296005a0fab8bccd30a9fc46743e506ed42234 SHA-256: c3bdf9fe32265e55280dc46084dfd3c095d3fc95c7ae8d16c58ef407a8c73280
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body contains a call-to-action phrase, reinforcing the lure to click the embedded malicious link.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=guided+reading+anecdotal+notes+template+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jozuzuza.godilio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/refufijedufojada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xumig.mikeysgunshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/bixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.devorenutrition.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814246/26d1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.accentphotographybykim.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453498/rowetefodaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artisticcounterculture.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740055/jadizanuxija.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/1/0428/8797/0975/files/nixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/85265619732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2779/9957/files/chief_keef_asap_rocky_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1535/5042/files/bob_ong_macarthur_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0625/2440/files/97630397561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6914/5241/files/39235626731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2441/files/40342501270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5501/4298/files/motip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7391/2488/files/sudumoguwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9499/files/37387414422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3334/6719/files/4892386287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4940/9960/files/fobedogujolizojuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2268/files/lupazusowupataw.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_off000062df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62DF 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 515e4d92f3a2e4d54513b9a60cd1d15cabe1c14321b09b046d05d213e25bf48c
font_01_sfnt_off00007589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7589 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 1168582d42250e5a20b20d9d3c994ed1e71c9415a0f7db28622b00ea701dcaaa