Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 989bc48f2be8f4d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 00:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5163e804804ceee9133e1c216049ee4f SHA-1: 432dd6781adf6346b6a23293b5aaffe80ddf9444 SHA-256: 989bc48f2be8f4d381c9568d00c0bf7c761bc537ecf04dd73c41b8b2203bb058
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=english+grammar+learning+in+tamil+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content through a link farm.

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.ru/pify?keyword=english+grammar+learning+in+tamil+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nwenergy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856446/beb49bf2f057834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clothesforallweather.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776298/0bcde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spreadalittlemotivation.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606331/nudofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eumckids.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738719/kerubu_mapowutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phoenixtherise.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380480/sijoxabagorekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6226/2936/files/rejadogaxajafubidupeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0633/6924/files/3169329589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4655/2227/files/95797155413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/50820247245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/rapepinifimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6312/9765/files/42365080085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6733015585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5684/0354/files/softwares_serial_keys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0006/2371/files/64592974490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6500/6494/files/93317041788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/16717695476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7888/5280/files/71650053257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3741/7891/files/ropalowumevesi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD9 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 82ad50eda3966ec6504cb3455acaa70c032c19ecb5692f9789ac8148181b9dfc
font_01_sfnt_off00006beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BEB 4456 bytes
SHA-256: e5c84850984f894c67c2d346387b6d6e7cef8214fc2c22ed2b3e3da1661bc6a9
font_02_sfnt_off00007af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF5 13420 bytes
SHA-256: c4404f3ccae12d407d706ef8888773e3e71cdf486a4b934a9459673c6ba1f224
font_03_sfnt_off0000a547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA547 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71