Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553ec36ad93f87f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c448ec60f2e5301c8ae26a6131b5c86 SHA-1: b58c0a4595e7688907bfac95a19f9d1dab48d82d SHA-256: 553ec36ad93f87f7994ea230ce1deb5b340ae986e7965f784a43cab19a98c68f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the link farm, suggesting a coordinated effort to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=kerala+box+office+collection+report+today, which is flagged as a malicious redirector.

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=kerala+box+office+collection+report+today In PDF document text
    • http://files.card-on-blue.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969800/63cfadb2f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wessidevibrationsinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437312/5505649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kumanu.iucnbsg.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/2106449.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/1/0428/8462/8633/files/95835061475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/suvekovowitizupozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/calculus_2_integration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1080/8213/files/85091863176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3537/files/togadowurewojodobazikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2473/5643/files/mimawegawuzotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lozafawofife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0787/7017/files/nudomevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9395/files/karinagamumipunosalika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/mabakesufufexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4103/files/zomokevezaxufafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9462/0837/files/96149851486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/ophthalmology_books_free_download.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_off000067e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E5 5252 bytes
SHA-256: cc3a5de6dd0296850010693900346f47116d7c090b26425cd8e3e2fb3e0b3679
font_01_sfnt_off000079d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D7 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 88d708b69e108438327e7751e6128cdfb5cad53f34d726e001f3b0040498e417
font_02_sfnt_off00009cd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CD7 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ead7fd593d7f5feef6f283420e9b55f8fa4552f107c64b0063d474dd3355abd8