Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fd28162944bbb5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 11:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6bb9fdb887006855bfd9472ce6437d6f SHA-1: be1455fda03a79d069601444d718de89abda1bb8 SHA-256: 3fd28162944bbb5bf9cd89b9f561986639b4db7e4cc3894e4a7d2d656505b2fd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ankusham movie free' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking free movie downloads. The presence of numerous links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content.

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=ankusham+movie+free In PDF document text
    • http://vutitebe.1procurementplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739860/187cfee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadek.laurakhuber.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/e6051853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.countyparkfriends.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/zobisulit_selitiga_sojinotavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nightridersnh.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/aa0c48617.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/kupesuditijativerawepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2715/8424/files/pugisumiremabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2017/9864/files/2993709240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7854/1722/files/dobijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8338/6280/files/46763611841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7273/1801/files/bevington_shakespeare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6027/8936/files/84722840263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3689/2584/files/pagirulagu.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_off000064bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64BF 5088 bytes
SHA-256: fc9d6ad7a70aa56008725c6604ffcf7833c69e223cba089edb9b6f03983040b8
font_01_sfnt_off000075e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E8 3884 bytes
SHA-256: dd8cf63636971ba5f3d3031331051606383d6dd4be108ab45a84ab423eed5b64
font_02_sfnt_off00008534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8534 9736 bytes
SHA-256: ea3741c8d75d70cfd810cc51076f5adaceea5cf01e534793898e2c8b30273a87