Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 403cf8e241cfb9d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:05:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b9e5bac58c9752c1a136135e24ee5fe SHA-1: fd52400d842027215a7c89ae6e5cff7314ba342c SHA-256: 403cf8e241cfb9d6b2e29c9f785584bf6f196af9aace465a9bcf607e706a76f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a movie download, which aligns with the redirector's keyword. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further 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.com/pify?keyword=kaththi+full+movie++dvdwap In PDF document text
    • http://files.bonnetcatering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738914/4978455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dikaluz.myhola.co/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/cfd0522962ec394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filonana.nc3family.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407222/leduzuzazobib_rubenewoli_sajujebusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nicolorae.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814132/7841088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regaw.waughseverydaydollar.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/fuxetemepu-poxotofufojofe.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/1/0428/9911/2099/files/87488637033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4310/1591/files/39770800637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5452/8677/files/jibexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0088/7457/files/rotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8060/6111/files/17036951234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/58694040334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/41907875313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6383/6834/files/crusader_kings_2_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8058/1274/files/partitura_careless_whisper_sax_alto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4047/2229/files/60031816496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1249/7305/files/american_college_of_clinical_pharmacy.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000117d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D7 5128 bytes
SHA-256: b59bf498f6ec414468d304c0d68a13d1bd73145ff92aafa097d715e55aabe51f
font_01_sfnt_off0001294b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294B 11356 bytes
SHA-256: da966093b8ee20557d59a74a52bda094d4d6554a74574bfb2e090cec805b19fe
font_02_sfnt_off0001500d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1500D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6