Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3a0a8af23f6dd46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57db32666f027a8a072966508c2c9bc1 SHA-1: f0f2ca1976858aed5ede95cc395e983272f0c744 SHA-256: f3a0a8af23f6dd46cd65b21b56817da91f535c199f9eeaaec89f4f107d229a5d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references a PDF document title, suggesting a social engineering lure. The file also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO 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.com/pify?keyword=argumentos+a+favor+da+pena+de+morte+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.brettdickdpt.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303219/xajibewizeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simonikigweba.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398177/wagekakapuzowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonogip.gametimeranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453329/runusa_rubopojo.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/1/0431/4375/7985/files/3650704119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/synonyms_words_in_english_with_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2969/2577/files/letunulaviromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/66516071304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7223/3376/files/wadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/sisuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4754/files/75591743683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7135/4533/files/define_neoliberalism_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5828/9045/files/bijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9579/3557/files/2036362991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8163/8812/files/59187039372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/71091138549.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_off00007010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7010 5376 bytes
SHA-256: fe14bcbf975c178e7fe28a0169eee8914a82edff284aa63dfc80af33e4783af7
font_01_sfnt_off00008249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8249 12260 bytes
SHA-256: b0403f145e58ac4e0b7cab7f69d97813cb95715487d80a33f842d1e7ced1fb6b

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