Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42baf45599bbb341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 444e70a5bc685474be3f0800f1916669 SHA-1: 49bdb660282ac7c6f669b5738f243778b74fdc71 SHA-256: 42baf45599bbb341c39e1cbd038318e208d4710977d9528c6a90cf9608228501
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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=iron+ore+beneficiation+plant+project+report+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body itself contains the lure text and the malicious URL.

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=iron+ore+beneficiation+plant+project+report+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.politicsarchive.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383649/2498375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matrixcarpetbinder.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/budixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dellxl.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379514/5008250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ujimainstitute.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740536/ripuredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/15745907147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4676/2656/files/betaremoroven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/91117407261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2289/8584/files/definition_principles_and_scope_of_environmental_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1325/0965/files/49205543934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0042/1790/files/rezezibonuporeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3893/files/brutalist_london_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2437/files/niwafisosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/56147640791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5962/5627/files/gidevagedenimufafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8886/1602/files/sua_loi_file_khong_in_duoc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1362/7294/files/32373999137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6656/2462/files/lutizufabimilegetagekerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3942/2624/files/bates_pocket_guide_to_physical_examination.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_off00007339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7339 4912 bytes
SHA-256: d023f0565ce67086c750aacf7e8a940aa86119290ccfa37dcc0d2312d5b4c461
font_01_sfnt_off000083e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83E1 10472 bytes
SHA-256: accbf897ff43a5a5f727c7bb2a3983efdeadd3f83de0ecedd724f15bb1d1e415
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7B6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176