Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3647e1c6eb700aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9cbefcad7b4933398bf6546a99188635 SHA-1: 2fc54e557e059ed5a953a5ae83765ec14a0d0886 SHA-256: e3647e1c6eb700aa04b4259ed77e8a2b3114c7deb2ce43192252017718b029e6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=drivers+village+syracuse'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=drivers+village+syracuse In PDF document text
    • http://files.watervlietpubliclibrary.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381021/1659827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allthewayefi.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070098/rowaf-masot-liweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gisportfolioaustin.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303374/xalevarupuwodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michelleprocida.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/dimin.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/1/0440/8446/1720/files/biwidejudufajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/48324654701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6912/6309/files/wafipuzukapuwelagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2729/9478/files/puxesesudavufaxofobofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/rozaxetopupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1554/4737/files/62114161427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6671/0426/files/kifejebelivopagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4136/4890/files/62871828302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9708/7390/files/tigikalojitatepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8068/7524/files/dafufofona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8209/5517/files/75082838743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/xojidilelonomolibunosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2116/files/potasagonola.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_off0000660a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x660A 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 75e6a7b310c894e1bb09ce5cc968f39f0a17e5209c3eb6175b7a2964aafbe727
font_01_sfnt_off000077a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A4 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 53830c5a0f8b7e77a6bfb6dc05fcdbd401a09f81f29fe61cdd2aa89faebb5b44