Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6985c597f0ae02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:23:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 44fe94081918c6d44882a1cda6646d43 SHA-1: f5cddb0ac3b4828b8dd599c569dce45effee9657 SHA-256: 4d6985c597f0ae023cf1f6020c2db2e400a4d1ef3967095949bf4756eee643f4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a prominent link presented as a download for 'Upsc mains answer sheet pdf download'. This link, identified as a malicious redirector, points to 'ttraff.cc'. The document also contains a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The presence of a call-to-action button further supports the malicious intent of luring users to click the link.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=upsc+mains+answer+sheet+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://xuvemijis.divinesoulcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/9741733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anakarylle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874073/ketakizibagesipepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heavygrail.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380733/bitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donahuesportsmens.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814581/9588380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahkramerharrison.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453132/6282998.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/1/0429/7680/5018/files/taxonomie_van_bloom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5528/3366/files/background-_size_css.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7118/4794/files/zoworebozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3864/5144/files/rivubejavedonuletakiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4104/5145/files/animals_for_kids_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2215/3890/files/vixogazegado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2025/files/12136194426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tadigepulimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9700/5981/files/82744748460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xoperesotojazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5306/9974/files/search_inside_yourself.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2428/0726/files/daydream_believer_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4670/6088/files/48640045596.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_off00005635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5635 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 7467113908fea57b320b04d3569cd6c77bfa0f8bc9a1b4517a565aefc66062c3
font_01_sfnt_off000068bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68BC 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 397d605f2153fb832cad7dd446f753d18e6e0a545c2978d25eb968bbe4b5ca73