Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3cf786aa73b8be3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 10:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 066d7e8aad3e03ce65381df3609a8264 SHA-1: 25c096b2c82643d6db38ad63cce8eb7a0e2d774b SHA-256: f3cf786aa73b8be3a4762a61a3f480be2fba75b7a5e1e765dc85e5b840becf2e
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=footer+word+template'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and the nature of the PDF heuristics strongly suggest a social engineering lure.

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=footer+word+template In PDF document text
    • http://joxonid.byptrampolines.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/6427354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cannonurology.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710624/rimewexala_bizivub_nafudonigaxi_luxalufonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charlesvoysey.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163780/c8c99f7a04ea2c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nickmonsters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874679/tewowiw_nitawebulifu.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/1/0429/5317/9289/files/26377289788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4139/7656/files/what_happened_to_the_ancient_library_of_alexandria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5485/7369/files/woletelevilomogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/bekesiwizolibokojoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3110/9538/files/kijefibawomiwirikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/wobagotejoludavororam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57355052908.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_off000055a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55A1 4972 bytes
SHA-256: d272a2a38ec3e82da3e86c35f53767a05f9f15c056827e30dbbfd70b09c000f0
font_01_sfnt_off00006686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6686 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 11d5ade43adfb4ab16c2b4653ec2c2373ee81beb54ad47c269b677a38b2005b8

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