Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14aec0bdbb4583a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:42:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 33869547f3bdc779aea46cfe9ef7fd26 SHA-1: 2e175412f1fdc34e66aa9748447eebef3c59132f SHA-256: 14aec0bdbb4583a93bde8d8680d4fd7b928df8fd6c571c51e091d1afee0fcaa5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be SEO-optimized lures for free downloads. A critical finding is the use of the redirector `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=affairscloud+current+affairs+monthly+pdf+download`, which is known to lead to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL, indicating its intended use in a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=affairscloud+current+affairs+monthly+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.nightowl-omnias.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682623/mokuluvevigesovapege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dealswithdessy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483214/6ca95d8af945a18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cameronnazarene.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740458/dd42c5f42e75ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kjequine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070845/e1a20573207292a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1207/7206/files/71856932376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3121/5780/files/hd_avi_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6918/5943/files/download_nitro_full_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63537272249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5297/1685/files/5000_frases_mas_usadas_en_ingles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5944/files/english_grammar_test_bank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zurutadodusabexefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4547/6762/files/pdf_tools_split_merge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/lattices_and_ordered_algebraic_structures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1931/3053/files/sabipures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9807/0435/files/4_perspectives_of_balanced_scorecard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8999/3635/files/bis_in_idem_tributrio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/52254558243.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E0F 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 241fdbe86e6d6ed7d67d968218ae64a36247b784e8a3b1e5cecdb4fb6c7fdf66
font_01_sfnt_off0000707d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707D 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 129318a7a651e7d203bf6da2b4864b2cbaa6d896c78317a8f2de9ca271d7a65d
font_02_sfnt_off000093e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93E1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230