Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6527f4bf6c4c205a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2e8e7b036d244e1180a6767edd90932f SHA-1: 8c3ecfc64c36d11be7eec3fdb05143785ce778d0 SHA-256: 6527f4bf6c4c205aac22437979c3d716be97aa4aeb92830269f29da26be83cac
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and SEO link farming, specifically pointing to a redirector URL. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a 'password-protected archive' lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anarkali+malayalam+movie++480p' is identified as a malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=anarkali+malayalam+movie++480p In PDF document text
    • http://files.michaelsawecki.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413148/3548276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.detroitcomposersproject.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682970/4699624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoda.bbeboutiquellc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/zakamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amberstope.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681812/488371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://���������In PDF document text
    • http://bltlly.com/129kcoDownloadIn 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/1/0427/5562/1031/files/adjetivos_comparativos_en_ingles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8094/9659/files/fijiveredek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0577/7832/files/dim_sum_menu_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5491/4981/files/blender_modeling_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6582/6719/files/daliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4902/4679/files/kalumonobobepuwivumevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4357/7246/files/biology_mcqs_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8770/8825/files/78808807757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0565/4678/files/29479248127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/7996/files/13121740856.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_off00013971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13971 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 8704369a7ff6b3f21d05dbc53a4cf0f6de714f7e21a9ae35fb5355cbd6e4d832
font_01_sfnt_off00014bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BD7 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 3837fb53d0e6b5bc7289472e42abb714045c69a6bb6521e3b8d0ab79c8c2a8dc
font_02_sfnt_off00018202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18202 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 77acd0f26c3709019931729c3b6608e47a5261073b4bf4cbd8aee7bf28a42783