Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e098c9e0b5dfab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 06:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3cb113a7c61f33df80954e40e3b1b868 SHA-1: 4e18f4648f9f8750bd77cbbc2f3ac9b4b732e009 SHA-256: 05e098c9e0b5dfab09fc75be7a904713bb51297a0be93f68c2a70d87d2d32148
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ethical+hacking+books+in+tamil+pdf, which is associated with malicious activity. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for SEO manipulation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=ethical+hacking+books+in+tamil+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thomaslhiegel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/1492316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avsyum.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813100/32725f48bcd05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annahovet.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302858/xevoxiz-dudibugunet-nazedegeb.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/1/0431/2711/1841/files/74072948947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/89570380848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2190/9662/files/html_to_php_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1673/9222/files/xivegobikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6999/7207/files/10030254739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3313/2193/files/zekisazuduzaxafetizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3264/0664/files/426174872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9434/files/28134197946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/fojarajinegeputeturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8389/6734/files/86716154113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1668/2663/files/2746928238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6594/0904/files/dogoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5052/3029/files/bunkie_test_espaol.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
🗂 Part of campaign: annahovet.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7297 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 39a675e07852f452563390d33020055d8138ebe09d24431bba3372ce38fcf029
font_01_sfnt_off0000859c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x859C 10292 bytes
SHA-256: e60000878c6fc3b1de427335f9638af65b5f533752b59306c81ec8cae608380b