Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba5754ae1062315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:19:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1cab19ac1f37d16771d102a8d66daed SHA-1: 8743565d39362f12ef1af404b659e9993c63c8b3 SHA-256: 8ba5754ae10623152504ebb66b92acf46f859e32356efe2d19b889a9d3734f2e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with multiple links pointing to shopify.com and other domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chauka+chhaka+odia+movie+song. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the redirector strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=chauka+chhaka+odia+movie+song In PDF document text
    • http://dawuxejop.tavisdupreez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/migakiwutekufalawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fortworthdst.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070160/tepukuxivifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.psychosocialresearchgroupunsw.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384081/nejadibebasel.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/1/0430/4227/5479/files/minamobureja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7616/4515/files/51862093688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/winubituzokevijozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2379/4339/files/80508218576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/fugutudinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/lonely_planet_turkey_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8914/files/98199265875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/5729641345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6429/4557/files/kajuvuwurafarireze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1992/7713/files/73940087273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0069/files/ocarina_of_time_official_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9263/1962/files/galaxy_a50_specs.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_off00008133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8133 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 82358d75fcdf3d4ad5a9629ef06f38bd66ffb379256df7cfa6b9536dbbd214a9
font_01_sfnt_off000092fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92FB 13832 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9b5311a75be2bf4c78d2f112f4225efc77bd3982c5841226b8fb80b52ec5dc