Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3ae6b536cccd319…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6f35758c49f9481844b8685301340fef SHA-1: fd222cd8b7af77f0895ca5a698ac1cf4fb70c68c SHA-256: f3ae6b536cccd319c2f498e3aa945ed29db19a7872d15b036882b14a5fd0a3ae
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=effects+of+stress+essay+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content under the guise of providing a PDF on stress effects. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the SEO-based lure tactic.

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=effects+of+stress+essay+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.affordableinsurancedirect.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437724/zematonidatore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lazotemi.cancunrivieramaya.tours/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695306/pozupaje_fesosajaduti_zagagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pkjoypoet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383727/ec0b16.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/1/0434/6013/3031/files/using_apostrophes_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/test_1879eb6a-339e-4d45-a409-571cd94a4742.pdf?v=1594212285In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lozafawofife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5009/8085/files/gobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0234/6148/files/63134939149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3773/6603/files/79792185131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2836/4968/files/77845645936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4325/3406/files/bossa_nova_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4678/9542/files/flatland_full_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8832/1438/files/19150886042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8858/0512/files/ansys_workbench_18._2_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2529/1674/files/vuvoneresifutivododi.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_off000072e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72E6 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb93d78ca2eae6a38cc0a87e49383ad384bd668bb423ce7220f9c8414802349
font_01_sfnt_off000084a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84A4 10156 bytes
SHA-256: f3217dad7da8d0708873b3d120f6b0b008f268ee5f31890d7ebbff2858f33a7c

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