Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f00b4d5ba33fe4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 20:42:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3695c9410c9b2ad2ed87daefaa117f90 SHA-1: 485b09352e02008be7a222ee8fbfb3ca15c7f065 SHA-256: 9f00b4d5ba33fe4dbf3b77ca093fc1d28f896cb4d8c084825a4443f985423947
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=amar+ujala+epaper+allahabad+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the primary malicious URL. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=amar+ujala+epaper+allahabad+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vanfiretrust.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775828/2868592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themotivationalshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070527/8665794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voiceofgodrevivalsministrie.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/jimetugejenodo.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5318/7223/files/jacksmith_armor_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/50498464612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8390/6724/files/bexukoluduzotifariku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0508/3811/files/pupujoperefovogarumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/dirimomuvefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70945418412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2054/files/99135591942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7665/7051/files/gosujililezibivobeduzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3881/8982/files/53027005033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1092/3423/files/bimoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6868/5464/files/lonoboked.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000527c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x527C 5308 bytes
SHA-256: b3c7782e3e68338172c959b2820dd23a9ec37edd439da5b2c5df1d4aeddc3124
font_01_sfnt_off00006455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6455 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8b21b664bcc1271d975df6c55a4c9be5a77c5b357cd3ea89f17552b59cb4fc
font_02_sfnt_off00008791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8791 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e
font_03_sfnt_off00009ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CE2 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 7241c5c6b0256b43e14f32ae064a98cfd9d2fa5e5991fffc8674c84f73a477b2