Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0db0aeb7a5901148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 06:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9593ce371bda19e32b3be5667adb0b22 SHA-1: 3d298eb96df7c9cd647ad2cf9c1abe5ff9005df2 SHA-256: 0db0aeb7a59011489288334f0bc8aefc483f9c8f021b30fa6c1c20e5235c2c97
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links designed to appear as academic project downloads, but they redirect to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=iit+mechanical+engineering+projects+pdf, which is used in conjunction with SEO tactics to lure victims. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=iit+mechanical+engineering+projects+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.damascusbaptist.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406604/2357634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.royaleliteweeksrental.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437299/5122364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufejojam.dementeddesignsoc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406507/gexemejedulu_tugebowujatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleynelsonnd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454620/fifuxut.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/1/0433/1690/4104/files/wipagigavaxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1095/6196/files/8301191261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/xopikuvojobupokewowowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6450/0122/files/54958516793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5719/2853/files/13760835813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1566/5826/files/cannonball_adderley_omnibook_eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/mevuvosufuredewadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0139/2801/files/discord_server_themes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6277/8264/files/ballast_water_management_convention_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5956/9055/files/18045027481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7230/5817/files/19225112576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2421/0326/files/chinese_alphabet_and_pronunciation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ab82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB82 5584 bytes
SHA-256: ea4c7276a09ab85086aa76ee5caba11eab6bf69acea2351aa50c464722e9a2ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000be58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE58 14940 bytes
SHA-256: 1154baf220e39bd19b732da3cbbe0b3864a89941e02cfd860c8cbc709d57b07a