Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23af1b4ca4697aa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:58:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 458079aae84c175d835b22f94becf21a SHA-1: b1e47126f3b275cab663622f744841d2b05a97bc SHA-256: 23af1b4ca4697aa2b3a600a12fd20fb435d54795d0b9b588b109c6e4de4b0e47
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ghatna+chakra+history+pdf+free+download+in+english', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious content under the guise of providing a free PDF download.

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=ghatna+chakra+history+pdf+free+download+in+english In PDF document text
    • http://files.theoverflowingbookshelf.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856212/kobugebufumanefufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harrisendofthetrailranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/1987111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nodupe.libyauprisingarchive.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/vumezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ervinracing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814544/7763555.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/1/0428/7964/7903/files/watch_fifty_shades_darker_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5003/2549/files/47613315603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5373/6348/files/tica_a_nicomaco_aristoteles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/59498960493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/wexovunudepaderenasili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8770/files/nurosubewodajavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5295/5810/files/asbabun_nuzul_surat_al_mulk_ayat_15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9691/5616/files/suzimokagapejofenejipisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/fipifetobitobiletoxavono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/womil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/jelopowunemojijanukano.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6132 5704 bytes
SHA-256: f96afdd7113c927e449693ad2c83c153b03f387da29d6939a06f22344d557215
font_01_sfnt_off000074b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74B5 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d5ecec3e822993868ba70e247019bcdb656a9fee58d620eb93bc70658e929280
font_02_sfnt_off00008018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8018 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 23e0dbaa3005d3d8040dbeb4432451ede6d6c99061f13f2411d5adf87d971843
font_03_sfnt_off0000a302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA302 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc8ecb2f51d189bb02d769c0a7cb985316d0a81596020f3a51d21c753491a2c