Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c094462016e80c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 00:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e2236e5bf447b9be9741f8d58cb0ba6 SHA-1: a11002fe5fe5f0e5e6fc9bd4251f44aea8af46e4 SHA-256: 42c094462016e80c4fc246dfae41b73dab3e23652b03984af7f282f474df8f2f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an 'Accountancy project for class 12 cbse 2020 18 pdf'. This link, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=accountancy+project+for+class+12+cbse+2020+18+pdf, is identified as a critical threat. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive document title, leading users to click on the malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=accountancy+project+for+class+12+cbse+2020+18+pdf.
  • 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=accountancy+project+for+class+12+cbse+2020+18+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sib4sib.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741385/dda02c0e0cf1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ladyccollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871659/lusubifelig-nekonajuna-ritivuwuw-namero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golama.paulabarbercoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969972/9389567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cefdauphin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775897/wofimifirutuvemef.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/1/0430/0223/2983/files/9823991896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/wafizivedasumosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2871/files/lopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6395/7918/files/5e_monster_manual_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5426/6533/files/lebame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/raregum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7076/files/luvubanizonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9465/4632/files/68651223834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7529/5640/files/kitab_bajuri_jilid_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1578/files/93757408639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8188/3030/files/catacumbas_de_roma.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_off000075ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75FF 5976 bytes
SHA-256: 05e460303bec215b29b4d583d4ea44c010bb87ef2f565b1924bee6c88d86199b
font_01_sfnt_off00008a72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A72 10352 bytes
SHA-256: dfe47bba2473c32635925f16dc81faacd86b4ac9243f1c8e9dc409303ac0f125