Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a045b2eff76eb9ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3e4fc91b6eca7457091d7ba1d70bc7ed SHA-1: 3ff410c1018d8bf864478cfd201ecced5c6468a2 SHA-256: a045b2eff76eb9ad537b1343b36d57dcf83b184205790372b04aec88b036bd03
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is presented as a download for 'b d chaurasia general anatomy pdf download'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=b+d+chaurasia+general+anatomy+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.shiragirlschoir.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681438/b19819daffed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhwa.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814544/giwofoxupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenwaymetalrecycling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695343/fituwurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manhattanhope.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637291/vepojukuse_javiguxobe_nuvuv_sodudixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/c_string_to_int.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5833/7694/files/the_crucible_ddo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/zokutumaxibodiziduludog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0147/9321/files/59637371930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3613/0983/files/moparupizirumolifavage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4416/6037/files/51090278328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6300/0734/files/xagifefubogiseregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7785/1550/files/david_deangelo_double_your_dating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/download_from_xnxx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9964/3286/files/jukesa.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A1 5696 bytes
SHA-256: 42a84176eba3b6ea37d7860805daae49ae699d1c43655899b883e52e1850de31
font_01_sfnt_off000077e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E5 9960 bytes
SHA-256: 145f2006c4bfd3964fb3620dbeaef16349a096a8d34d6e89fd9cfe3f9df57737
font_02_sfnt_off00009a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A00 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2