Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3e9be2420548fa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2bb6c31c548d3c57f7f0426b1f1afd16 SHA-1: 33aff4683bab2fff6ac13b95390057888fa8b59a SHA-256: d3e9be2420548fa7271825647602e1a1ecb270f186a713891eafa8b520cd803d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a workout routine and the malicious URL. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via the 'ttraff.com' URL, likely to deliver a secondary payload or conduct a phishing attack.

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.com/pify?keyword=3+day+workout+routine+for+beginners+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://selopo.fairfaxpinesenglishlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/9254152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.landryserengeti.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775431/dcaaf4f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gloscamsoc.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070611/soxapeb.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/1/0429/7680/5018/files/23458367728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4151/3894/files/gebosexarufinozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8228/5216/files/pijeresipiwevevoreduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9026/4742/files/69147260980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/5000/files/favekidutezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4618/1787/files/bafobubapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2929/1427/files/61397319066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/telisupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6550/6966/files/83925000702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5962/4606/files/texegitole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9525543421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4073/3341/files/81377266063.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: fairfaxpinesenglishlabradors.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FB 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 6f92cbcb12fd2b283a6498900717a43ecd92a6ab25d8f99951246d46becbef04
font_01_sfnt_off0000745f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x745F 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 66eafa745e819ebdc42c37b2c03d500954e7c3c01ab5014a40c9111022e3adb4