Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e34dde3bed242875…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 02:30:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b243cd2f93a0cb632aeb43749fdfffab SHA-1: d87b18a4a7d82de53271a8edfbdd683481fc0c5a SHA-256: e34dde3bed2428754385da3a49b306af8b0adb73d9c37dbc547ae94a9e248307
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One prominent link redirects to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests the document is designed to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator.

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.ru/pify?keyword=handbook+of+avian+anatomy+nomina+anatomica+avium+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lubar.littletoncrabappletrail.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/xuzafadudatizami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxat.devitawellnessnow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/3128048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.searchlc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683260/2872169.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/1/0439/0807/1592/files/63275586229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7393/6291/files/carrier_ethernet_basics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/60751033141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5109/8007/files/peptic_ulcer_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8795/3053/files/zizuzufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4743/5940/files/4186461270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7161/8723/files/nakakipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5974/7745/files/39360278735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9291/7924/files/xikigupivajafobodatowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1007/2481/files/43420270777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6815/3253/files/32579876936.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_off0000463a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x463A 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa6aab9ff522342e7444dd44aa77b1fa3b47d44d489c9c33da80f755225fc46
font_01_sfnt_off0000584f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584F 9764 bytes
SHA-256: 1c50653a733881e2965e8f3e564352467cb02f4110f3c80a27b15ce25694b697

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