Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5941c41235142539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 678bf1391bf15a192b1550b359ee24ec SHA-1: 5e8f77fba0f7715da4bbd7b86935b7f5ba25917e SHA-256: 5941c41235142539cabfe324019c591861e572ddbfea11ad9e9560eb29d88a35
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector link farm. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bangla+translation+book+pdf, is presented as a lure for a "Bangla translation book pdf". The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this lure text and other embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely to create a link farm for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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.com/pify?keyword=bangla+translation+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://funozena.birthhealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/4126655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silverfoxxjournal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436981/8978cf4a08e06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carpetcleaninggoleta.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695586/faxiwuxomafena.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kepudanunakadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6197/8023/files/read_incest_comics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/45270745600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7840/1700/files/dobuwawesivofugovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0790/0835/files/49037153034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/21154843933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7563/2285/files/32945912814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3329/6028/files/linux_commands_for_sap_basis_administration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5920/7579/files/is_ex_a_scrabble_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/375914644.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8A 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 2fdde34db9d307bf68874ab90fa50cb4ee497d549ed7edff997425eaaaff7669
font_01_sfnt_off00007220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7220 10832 bytes
SHA-256: e6c8cbc0df91144c0915bb92bd49930bf4a28198943da1bb58b5ebf6ca6402a7
font_02_sfnt_off000093a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93A9 10588 bytes
SHA-256: e3fc7c27f2cf03e07b3d866dc59346b90d70a83556c0e9c5d550f8c1f2feb0de