Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa3551d72a8b553c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 00:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 700420ee6b1a65aec29501b7d787b1ad SHA-1: dc9805b82b811cc69094d37bda0e0d20e97bf969 SHA-256: fa3551d72a8b553c17d534860169e722a50eec4d6415390828766b7ceeff4989
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blacksmith+workshop+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the primary malicious URL, suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to this malicious redirector.

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=blacksmith+workshop+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.merrifieldseminar.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/7749287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zion-top.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813934/geriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charlemagnemilitaria.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/7434512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.celebratewithstringsattached.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/fibilemipesi-nowedobebumabed-juzibaj-pevirijezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmcoastflautorepair.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815054/kuxepetaji-rafojuxefozur-powinuvof-fasagokofefu.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/1/0431/3723/7148/files/pepuzaxalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/58406289782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4349/9677/files/almagesto_italiano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6816/files/62841201178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2622/3001/files/accounts_payable_and_accounts_receivable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/463758403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0472/3349/files/34680057202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3399/2085/files/bevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/68725946521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1535/6067/files/44201017766.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_off0000cd6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6C 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 89b23256ca8445620019a2f850bd3bf6b993a261e98c46e92ba9a81faeb18e12
font_01_sfnt_off0000e062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE062 10888 bytes
SHA-256: d51326a2746557d50776af91c3937609bfea259d1075ce7157ca6ac7e743e0d0

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