Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33cceb13f7cef673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3b0c6d8519180307d7b94200cb2bf94b SHA-1: aae1a52593f7f696238886d90c590c46d1aa60d6 SHA-256: 33cceb13f7cef673929e11ebe3263783991c6918fd89f8248e0d6f6d896cac78
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blouse+cutting+and+stitching+pdf+in+tamil', leads to malicious infrastructure. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=blouse+cutting+and+stitching+pdf+in+tamil In PDF document text
    • http://tonewuze.blessingofheaven.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/d1a19df29ccd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.actioneducation.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164075/01ed9b60299a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.naturaltouchhealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164202/tuvotekejij-tewirage-lifafavi.pdfIn 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/1/0440/8272/5029/files/febuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/58085676994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/59849623617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1373/files/vemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5814/2120/files/91947700360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6673/files/calculus_early_transcendentals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4422/files/jowakufopejinugepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2282/7165/files/33402387984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/2862/9915/files/quality_assurance_pharmaceutical_industry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1458/5509/files/gojegelojozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4099/5490/files/supifisive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0789/3919/files/biceps_strain.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000042e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42E9 5524 bytes
SHA-256: f53806289c7c285a2e0e3dcd974fbca15ee3ae43b0f3be8b83ff0c4ed6e30fa5
font_01_sfnt_off00005595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5595 8952 bytes
SHA-256: ce9a91c68707b9fa5f87d3172f8ede0eba626ab0e7e66e10dd9b5127bab45f78