Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2372c2c8882f5c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 56bb527753e6c1043db709b2693e6f75 SHA-1: b895e9db54d98d8686f4f0c1192105445684adce SHA-256: 2372c2c8882f5c755d71d50aaeceeebeca3170a797c866f0a51c7f3b31316ba7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This indicates a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though corrupted, contains text related to 'Jawahar navodaya admission form pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used for malicious redirection.

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=jawahar+navodaya+admission+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.radcliffchristianchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452740/xafevisukojigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begago.eespip.eu/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/274540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silenthands.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712306/xozadobarenabunatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6681/7689/files/2281026256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3649/0398/files/49746066364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/96775238238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/kunulusoxiloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3775/1456/files/jurnal_ascomycetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9041/files/fios_tv_guide_arlington_va.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0393/5902/files/kufotevuparukofofoges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6469/6738/files/genuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/94099923579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/nakigadenuxefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3629/3785/files/echo_dot_not_registered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2853/6731/files/nanagofowetigizekotubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6133/files/50896441728.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_off00007ca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CA3 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 84af01c4d1368d47e4b77ecd28e53c151cf457772132fa5527a0a6519a6ca209
font_01_sfnt_off00008f48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F48 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 7438cf49f488d9867f6b159738497d869660977942d501ae97ab946832aece9b
font_02_sfnt_off0000b3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3F2 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 8bdddb84815f751ad0cf5266476bd4daba3a88c157a1efbe0812f1bf14315c0a