Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0440ccf8621dcddd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 24201d1c235d54f5b12b04ee1b78eb09 SHA-1: b9486b4324a2d41b9bcd28d215f41ef798b3c44d SHA-256: 0440ccf8621dcddd2669f85b815c863d76c6671d8f1d594335b1ad80e73a4254
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body text, though garbled, includes a URL that appears to be a lure for an application form, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links supports a pattern of leading users to potentially harmful sites.

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=khadya+suraksha+yojana+application+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.newwavevolleyballclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437147/gisaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.doorwaytodignityabuserecovery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438474/kenope_babuwupukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parisaforoutan.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398475/bikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moduza.mywoodmoor.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856372/wixabosukatef-fedaronibime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togijop.acauseforcrafting.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/8f60fb63175fc8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/mawijitiwebutedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2135/2606/files/82794736648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3246/8890/files/ikea_qatar_bed_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0821/2638/files/rowajeralisenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9040/3737/files/50515916873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3765/4178/files/boldly_i_approach_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4478/9669/files/zowananotagapefixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7087/files/angielski_b2_gramatyka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2510/4028/files/99365725309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2571/8678/files/31156240609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5844/4958/files/restraining_order_texas.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E0B 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 136027eaab6cb532d4a5a4c54e10b5de231b7b6d90f5c4c316e4056d07217bac
font_01_sfnt_off000070ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70FF 9852 bytes
SHA-256: 922357e756a3c0eeed0c26cc9eab562b6f86432e690aec086c7819729fe29dbf
font_02_sfnt_off00009308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9308 8220 bytes
SHA-256: de8ca794555191fd2e3433d1ecb6ebd9898907ef754d3b27935d327cab414caf
font_03_sfnt_off0000aedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEDB 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2d304351d565026ddb5bdf31e727d1baaec0ce5ae5842703d59722964a6996