Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce3d4c151a4e6161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5f120e64f9fc8d1905f3bfd7a81cbb73 SHA-1: 468727747537005dfd6c454148409612c37f14bb SHA-256: ce3d4c151a4e616111a15282ac7ccbc4af00f43833052d208b7a1c4a000a7683
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=grade+1+science+worksheets+materials', is presented as educational material to entice users to click. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine further payload delivery mechanisms.

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/pify?keyword=grade+1+science+worksheets+materials In PDF document text
    • http://files.orangecaddy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874026/golifukolek-rowerukini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drtaotcm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969057/gajegawumiwiwu.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/1/0431/1390/6333/files/clean_intermittent_catheterization_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3282/1412/files/42187245251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9295/9642/files/vinalikonabakogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1827/files/88667470587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2647/files/xujezutaxapitesigififen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9952/1178/files/54823063708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0656/files/lipedazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/doubleclick_campaign_manager_reporting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3004/5091/files/53391939061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/38322146995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0845/files/jawetarodatubeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4106/2040/files/chaotic_sword_god.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_off000041eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41EB 5204 bytes
SHA-256: f5919adb9d6e3df6985d255ea3740aa1af66905e9690c487e560396ce0c3f2b7
font_01_sfnt_off00005385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5385 9364 bytes
SHA-256: 7f28b05d77dd6166fbc3f462bd0b6886adab6edffe18b0d505c403dcf2dfe40e
font_02_sfnt_off0000738e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71