Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1aa384d29b168d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3618ac2f834a0d9037af22fe4d09fae9 SHA-1: 8db7f4eec22dc2f8c0a0baf16e1cb7c992e0e026 SHA-256: a1aa384d29b168d5d23a57ae912c208752428dbc62d1dcf3aaa60cce27f7ebb1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Telugu movies' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=telugu+movies+2018++hd+jio+rockers, which is flagged as a malicious redirector.

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.com/pify?keyword=telugu+movies+2018++hd+jio+rockers In PDF document text
    • http://timineje.aartstudio.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/e232486ce86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lepifojus.kidney4keisha.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408791/9099526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawojatu.westwoodcheer.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069915/7144427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wbphoto.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378838/setasepapofowisu.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/1/0431/1505/3213/files/dimewesoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5173/7498/files/6613023423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/zafafakatavamire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6770/2432/files/adp_ireports_w2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2531/6514/files/awkward_moments_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5181/0969/files/kolokodiratavijokifojurol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/nostra_aetate_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9311/2472/files/opportunity_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/popowodibenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/48425564241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bolosenisom.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75DE 5812 bytes
SHA-256: 0676bf4089c137c27b5a6e4b4e5a71f105f1b193c01ad7b18cbf38b9c7cdd281
font_01_sfnt_off0000899f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x899F 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 46813b8b7d28e6ea1b1f6fa927cc30aa6fd2bc8f8e478aed4c552cc7e3169c88
font_02_sfnt_off0000ace3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACE3 16076 bytes
SHA-256: b098da79dd067f31ba2c2b8c1c5e919600cd02ab140df2a372f8f699e4c507e4

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