Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 826f99843986ab8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 11:32:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c1a6f9bb537bbaaf59a27cc20183070 SHA-1: 0f54af1d5934c72c00d72710008fa143fadbf929 SHA-256: 826f99843986ab8c321facfd95c76910ff14903f712eaa502d99e6ab04144291
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document utilizes a link farm and SEO redirector to disguise a malicious URL. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bhagavad+gita+chapter+14+slokas+in+english+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body contains obfuscated text and multiple links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely intended to appear legitimate while masking the malicious redirect. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=bhagavad+gita+chapter+14+slokas+in+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.glynisfullwood.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409884/resofogoga-rosino-bojew-nukanamoxoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oceancountyroofing.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437249/20822a9e70d6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.singaporepsychic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/5072537.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/1/0430/0183/9769/files/74447820311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8764/2270/files/jozirevizurupokolixukoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8350/5570/files/lonoluluwowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3028/1381/files/riesgo_cardiovascular_aha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/lokedejumigulikajarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2137/7434/files/18613231307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6157/files/54750882005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4178/1920/files/ligogipunodojuzekatatutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0939/2285/files/rosapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1297/9869/files/67669773683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5063/0296/files/meruwesuwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/vefelosegizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2449/9367/files/suwegijefupefaberukiram.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_off00006196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6196 5732 bytes
SHA-256: 004cf2cd3f8107b02e5297f157950bffa2cd94acfe1295ebea45e97ab5143c1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000752f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x752F 13616 bytes
SHA-256: 840db6f468d9342d46d2594dbb818cc65b72d62d606bae79336edab8eaf8c610