Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f6cc3e19f0a0b07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93bddddc6ae4c4c5a2897f32ff671d9b SHA-1: b59510f6e511cb6d1f5279632cdff7408dea93a8 SHA-256: 1f6cc3e19f0a0b07af1a04287f38ee8afeab7c9881a99c77ce4f227d2f9410be
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to movie songs and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which are likely used to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.cc/pify?keyword=anandam+movie+video+songs+free++telugu In PDF document text
    • http://files.madephotobooths.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/60ecb4e8fb.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/1/0431/2514/5760/files/24774991212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9162/4096/files/92456338542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5450/5882/files/tawunumaridavizutijoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1828/0357/files/bodisetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2925/8649/files/research_paper_on_budget_and_budgetary_control.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7530/3592/files/pdf_splitter_and_merger_free_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/pupebuvidupobelisilowixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/megan_rock_of_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3734/9272/files/open_dental_query.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0313/files/20186508402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0609/9605/files/45504773298.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_off0000421a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x421A 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 62d0e0df6e168e4c0e5e0f0a9fad56b4db5d0254f55c4d49e874f5e52b04baa8
font_01_sfnt_off00005392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5392 9616 bytes
SHA-256: b77e72e10e871df6f8ea6fa6bb761656b51eac5a0c6e24be9c2674f94214938d
font_02_sfnt_off00007484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7484 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333