Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37d4ae6275eb18f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 06:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4777beedcc708dab1c63b6dcdaeb3495 SHA-1: 81a9050c144dfedbafac5d775ed8528e59a7cbf2 SHA-256: 37d4ae6275eb18f28844b83992bee4f0f3100a01a63f5978adb9af787f94ed80
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=jsc+full+marksheet+2018+chittagong+board, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead users to malicious content through a chain of redirects.

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=jsc+full+marksheet+2018+chittagong+board In PDF document text
    • http://files.anroflowers.co.za/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712447/nitaboxoso-rexakiwe-xurukotuxubakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.globalgoddessphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/sunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zeropointfieldenergy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775714/bimusanuwinezowige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zukazim.fvapbotb.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775810/7461f9bae6e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tused.mailingctr.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/3302778.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/1/0433/7991/6963/files/7369764744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/napikeraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/jatabuzewawemuluzoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5906/9599/files/master_chief_helmet_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0643/5232/files/92161019291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9752/2329/files/63604098027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1020/1499/files/radozojuxigiwenoweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1573/files/new_latest_odia_dj_remix_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3775/3493/files/captivi_plautus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/apush_period_1_and_2_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3019/2039/files/18952055042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3852/files/active_directory_group_policy_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/sabutopevotewu.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_off00007f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F5B 6148 bytes
SHA-256: b82c7195e067e35a733d8ddb6339ff9990398aa1e694b478cc62f0fff683e55a
font_01_sfnt_off00009414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9414 13852 bytes
SHA-256: 40826908c1991ba9aa8fccb8a898db225ac7b373172db670dc2012107236922e