Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 300d8333aaa65413…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb22cf6873c464691264b0ead1e6ac01 SHA-1: ef1a57af4af66ccc23c86cacd7589980b223dc4a SHA-256: 300d8333aaa65413dcf78b4ab9a07aabc19c297449ae72f975052c6cb82f1b48
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=tamil%20nadu%20current%20affairs%202019%20pdf%20download'. The document body also contains this URL, presented as a lure for downloading a PDF. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a link farm further indicates malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=tamil%20nadu%20current%20affairs%202019%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.creativereadingandwriting.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/tigano.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nemevisofopanufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/76972054357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3255/9267/files/kanosiraluwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/60657590717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/65363426394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3441/8075/files/28283029342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2534/9283/files/mtg_biology_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9024/6822/files/calibration_procedures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5211/3820/files/sklearn_classification_report_recall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3982/files/beginning_programming_for_dummies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6163/2406/files/chemistry_atomic_structure_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3213/3278/files/30042516428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6044/2774/files/sivizitununov.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_off000061f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F6 5824 bytes
SHA-256: 14d89dbde9110ba35d33b51f7b32ed9f49bfddbcd1bbbd8c3007546761ccf5cd
font_01_sfnt_off000075bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75BD 11864 bytes
SHA-256: 079872e81efd9fa54dba0336c73ceac513e5acad486066bddb98844e168a0a26
font_02_sfnt_off000093f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93F3 14044 bytes
SHA-256: 3af9a4ff939c7d2713cb89a72ed94ed52f30576f1d9dadd5bb1d28e53c3fb5ee