Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d5271ca542a3328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:25:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dba6dc1e9adba68de5579b06404baa27 SHA-1: 5abbcb4ea4bcd74c70e275d9f50473ba5001bd21 SHA-256: 1d5271ca542a3328272001c6a7126033d40d3483dbb2cc5c277cf8abb98fe83e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=annamalai+university+chidambaram+online+application+form'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the URL and text related to an application form, reinforcing the lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.ru/pify?keyword=annamalai+university+chidambaram+online+application+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.agentsreferralnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398131/latalivadov_xubexowubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bernardcassiere.fi/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606003/sitexano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abbyvolcansek.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437474/kifodobevu_jojatodiwewip_riwukifepoda_seraniperefebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovek.opmetoc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/2611d7f041.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/1/0431/9140/2660/files/wcf_tutorials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4072/6427/files/radiation_hormesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/68134079065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/wunonapusele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5838/8383/files/wafutuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1602/7303/files/cuentos_cortos_en_ingles_de_terror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5283/3695/files/vepefapunizimasudenuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/free_monthly_budget_planner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7170/8065/files/punutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9430/9019/files/html_background_color_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2272/0922/files/84783745629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3626/9983/files/pinuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/96516400158.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_off00006a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A78 5684 bytes
SHA-256: e9f3ebff8590454a075d70bfd2546ef0dc41a7c2e361c9b4180670c73d04665c
font_01_sfnt_off00007da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DA3 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 1570a2d55973b919796a1e637a04db805d4ba84392b0c36d19a838caa887327e