Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3b2c541e303cd3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 95716da6c5f12ca64812a278a7797aad SHA-1: bc024c9c3f79be2f30a1ee8fb84f1679134f8fb1 SHA-256: d3b2c541e303cd3ace9bd8de4787b40ad44b836a072b275d9cca87f5824e2773
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to a spelling bee competition, which is a common social engineering tactic. It embeds multiple links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=words+list+for+spelling+bee+competition+pdf'. This redirector likely leads to further malicious content or exploits. The document body also contains numerous other URLs, many pointing to Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=words+list+for+spelling+bee+competition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.silviabattista.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438161/juvevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.secondchancepetsponsors.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379567/2170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasesex.montessoriassothailand.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856161/zafepigisew_dewevulezi_poparekugatif.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/1/0434/3165/7638/files/simafakuvugitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1297/9879/files/tomamopekopimaxamelulikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7330/5750/files/guruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/xasunupuromubodibezividem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/43495211103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/67842750304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8706/0375/files/86277828208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/87810739966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6299/2799/files/49141224233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3222/2615/files/lonafojikumumivomogusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5684/files/download_adobe_reader_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5948/6626/files/jolewirunijukigibiwasor.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
🗂 Part of campaign: secondchancepetsponsors.org 6 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9769 5420 bytes
SHA-256: c854f34f8fa683f1d6d0f964c4428c7df037f02aaef30d4c845f4d2a1c66e49a
font_01_sfnt_off0000a9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9D0 9424 bytes
SHA-256: 99f6e7ecd4b1fea064e3a3ae3ae436fdffb9aaeb7157986a77abae8cf199170e