Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3bd9b948b8716cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c2fd8bdf76718e00a85b364e4679452e SHA-1: 2dd99cf20e19ff6153fc39271577af125823d326 SHA-256: e3bd9b948b8716cb295e2da17663300758ece675f991757cfdf4d7fafc7187b8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=puzzle+baron+logic+puzzle+answers'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the malicious URL and benign-looking text, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of a redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=puzzle+baron+logic+puzzle+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.theschooloffinetuning.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969505/dovefuzazewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rofuwip.pack283.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437906/sebaxuva-luvezel-wufafodi-kepudumireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vacationworld.co/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969655/eb021a920b11.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/1/0431/9592/4637/files/17454392735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0971/2021/files/forgotten_realms_interactive_atlas_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/4204374207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4715/6903/files/razapakudelonukibuzaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1171/files/netewiroragugulogawatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53981477141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4259/5239/files/66808950814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2530/9601/files/99738896200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6565/4939/files/numusabuzipozefosopibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4228/2399/files/87323780844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4170/5384/files/baybayin_the_syllabic_alphabet_of_the_tagalogs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8136/7712/files/dr_dre_the_chronic_2001_zip.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_off00005c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C29 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 9e5c3ecc1d10285a9a0819285f576ffee201ac977e40bc43ff596c41d8058aea
font_01_sfnt_off00006e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9A 12992 bytes
SHA-256: b746a63ffbfdf3682e6343de7507ef2b7b7cd52332caa3ada1224db13fcb7807