Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 914201c981415333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: adcf98460a3d50a56e8b7d4a7214e388 SHA-1: fe521ef4b070b6f9556387bcef732e3ae316e1c0 SHA-256: 914201c981415333baa020fa126a8ebbebe5e934d08770c91bf36db76bb036d7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=life+after+death+deepak+chopra+pdf+download'. This URL is part of a link farm designed to attract users searching for specific content, in this case, a book download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to distribute content through a seemingly legitimate platform while using a redirector for malicious purposes.

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=life+after+death+deepak+chopra+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.unleashyourself.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695805/sizoxekubimak_kinijatusimoku_pafunaw_sinububafasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catherinebeerdabasso.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070459/voralibirizafiv-jexasiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.b2bsolutionsgroup.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682564/zubovinudaxudew-gibosumijix-nuvafosodosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.a-1autoinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437601/lorotirivovelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.niwotcounseling.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740949/7958d41.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/1/0430/2657/9610/files/zimiwadubirizegadarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6102/6719/files/fazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8222/7617/files/43292030937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/denajalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5266/1926/files/wezutawuworufigemeziwumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6246/8514/files/xopaxarovubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7623/1063/files/80569106630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/25828234096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/19859163906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6955/5356/files/capm_39-_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9587/5989/files/58577687088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6702/3253/files/tafesiwumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2421/9288/files/atal_pension_yojana.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_off00009a7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A7B 5164 bytes
SHA-256: a4ab30c5c164e5e6f1ee621dbee5adaea3042d7ad3e3dc20f0cde265726c0d88
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC1C 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 1685be777e0ecf879a4c8ce4773b455d8679595999cc0d27921b868a94889387