Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 945ab294c4a75bf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 22:32:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9ae78a6469afbf4cedbaf1874e1b8662 SHA-1: edf21713c2586875f8b9136240b34fccee49d0c7 SHA-256: 945ab294c4a75bf3549407c5324e678347bbb418fd06aea684833729666db940
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a redirector link and lures for advance-fee scams, MFA harvesting, and callback phishing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, references 'hdfc bank credit card closure form pdf', aligning with the phishing lure. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=hdfc+bank+credit+card+closure+form+pdf', is a critical indicator of a redirector service.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=hdfc+bank+credit+card+closure+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sufozutez.estellaseven.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381428/loporinaluvoxetizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sheilalangston.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/9073989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harvestbaptistchurchmd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/39dd1f0447.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/1/0437/2732/3301/files/67738246018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6205/9427/files/50504931922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3493/5447/files/95255078361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9842/files/trolling_gui_roblox_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/vilasobalirelipevokapeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3274/7927/files/redokamarodudivotufife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/bikusapemutedimilejunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5064/files/puxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6372/1637/files/42198772040.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_off00019878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19878 5464 bytes
SHA-256: f1eeed1d8b7a9beeb58c1afd9f62855692cdca567c02ca18ebd22e14009951c4
font_01_sfnt_off0001aaf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAF7 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4be6186462cb9ef46001315b501b3ea3098139a339653c20c36aa8ed20a00b92