Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5866c404a932c2b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 783ca8f6d919dc786c94f05025b561dd SHA-1: 672994bd6883f91eef328a5efe696d9de9c3157a SHA-256: 5866c404a932c2b66599cef215e2e23966a2a56790c5bdd724099931758055ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bahria+town+karachi+ali+block+map+pdf', which is a critical finding. This indicates the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bahria+town+karachi+ali+block+map+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lorraineparishwriter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873870/lobojixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heatherbelbin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/milupujoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quiteabite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381804/lazezoz-demifuz.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16175378270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6319/6310/files/69477308630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6908/7642/files/20214127263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5108/0090/files/proterozoic_eon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3448/4648/files/mosazexezuvozodogeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7922/files/k_l_chung_elementary_probability_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/wodowizuwukudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6883/1382/files/analysing_survey_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4235/5865/files/farezopinajusilavuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61066914906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1172/6750/files/91245669208.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_off000059fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59FE 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 6b99ebd4a0489cd88743e5204d43ebb2d51e06d8e2f0f81b3c357e074cb2b00b
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA0 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae2a486a9b508b07e4b2a5b2cb83ad0c124d8cc8772234d8ac5ec9e58904959
font_02_sfnt_off00008f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F7A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333