Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e107117ca66298c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7981124c315c85f018c80ce68f057ad8 SHA-1: ddbc64bb4b02f1a349229f2d04435bea29737d25 SHA-256: 1e107117ca66298c5d948c950607ae847104284a0465ee7e94c8ae5e4eefaf3d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=basic+english+words+in+tamil+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the document body contains obfuscated text and a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery 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=basic+english+words+in+tamil+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.perfectlyimperfectcollegian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379828/6142017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancingtribescotland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406811/0895a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gakesigum.bfstrings.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/razupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/1/0432/1506/1153/files/65095893373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/rejowifixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5013/files/sedawasifurijanirabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/guvozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8497/files/rectas_y_angulos_primaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4130/0380/files/brown_bear_brown_bear_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9464/7719/files/sisonesufonawugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0257/2437/files/consumer_reports_zero_turn_mowers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/33249356097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6050/1407/files/zapaxuvomuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7475/4462/files/adobe_acrobat_reader_download_windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6936/5654/files/45150206866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2051/7537/files/niperuni.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
stream_004_off00009188.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9188 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 018ff515f5e0b7fc6a4f284f2a062531ff2e6f82e5de76ede897acb9a1e80672
font_00_sfnt_off00007e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E44 5712 bytes
SHA-256: a0e24d1622ba35b936e713e3257911e65630faf7fcb3bae394a6601a7aed9433
font_02_sfnt_off0000b942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB942 13368 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1bd93c5a8045976923a1e6a81a229c521bf3218061ff6bb70284bad1670605