Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13417ac541c3ca89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 731370897fd1f8741cff31371ae85d8d SHA-1: 65d91caa0a0ccd035f558aa9bbae3746af931bc7 SHA-256: 13417ac541c3ca89515892477e05fa4f876efe88d524c6fe21210cddf091c94a
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and SEO link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body and embedded URLs promote downloading an 'aadhar card', which is a common lure for credential harvesting or to trick users into downloading malicious files. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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/wix?keyword=download+aadhar+card+with+aadhar+number+only In 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/1/0431/8570/1019/files/volob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7880/2846/files/84295180811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7940/1632/files/suddenlink_channel_guide_lubbock_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1688/3109/files/le_bouddhisme_pour_les_nuls__tlcharger_gratuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6661/files/demand_planning_in_supply_chain_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3228/4057/files/a_level_chemistry_edexcel_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5302/2369/files/psp_iso_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2084/files/fakavaxuzanepodine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/4766051859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7baf93_a96dc99a01f840b39db4dc0e469d3236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_2351f2d3b83d4de097e972dd78e45ad4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_def89ea1257645e09c74abcd83d51160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f80014_bcdb878d146c4144874c6683770e354e.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_off00006172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6172 5336 bytes
SHA-256: fc08faeeb5352b79f3810ef6c334ce64b92a1851cd8109ffbe5750a390f38e8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000737d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737D 10328 bytes
SHA-256: d14c63fafa0bf2e9dc2667af02a12d15b4b2bcfabca94bf35b5612bf9d4f300c