Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5914b420c0da5605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:12:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 911e6c63247c242dc4c368cb726b8731 SHA-1: 6e8695797765fb00c242bea64374ade25c793655 SHA-256: 5914b420c0da560508e22f4703da60bbdf54279e59ce215b3e90ee10097a0089
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aadhar+card+xml+format'. This URL is designed to lure users with a plausible-sounding pretext. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. 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=aadhar+card+xml+format In PDF document text
    • http://vukajegix.hersheyblazetc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606739/sovawofovufukareke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mpgresponsibilitynow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775475/fusukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mail.cantoncommunityfund.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695692/5e16c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edgarallanpollo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814984/8665719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kai-ewing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874180/dejafenovigofaf.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/1/0435/1374/1471/files/81153304940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7107/6520/files/dxtory_2._0._133_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4374/7990/files/rojepuwenavaxaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/age_of_empires_2_validating_subscriptions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3950/5054/files/65913942541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6081/7048/files/vogavojosexuzuxufasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5864/1573/files/torobupizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2564/files/92198513510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5126/files/bunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7883/4583/files/65993306922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7015/3113/files/back_exercises_for_low_back_pain.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_off00009439.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9439 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 1f445cd8eb626d318eefadd14750819793e10fac7414665b315742a90387efc2
font_01_sfnt_off0000a58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA58F 15420 bytes
SHA-256: 7607f567aac945e20770e0c32a3c496749e2ba530dd2279f98d045bcb4cbc10f