Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2455b678bb0d8be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5537000653079dca4d2400063965a0f0 SHA-1: 59bf3d40d379ed1ebb84df0b70a2174d28d4c527 SHA-256: b2455b678bb0d8be485fc49a4f13116322aa8db8d707bfbd7faa22cfbe393e8f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link, which points to `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aayiram+kannumai+lyrics`. Additionally, another critical heuristic detected a PDF link farm, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely as a means to distribute malicious content or host phishing pages. The document body contains the text 'Aayiram kannumai lyrics' and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure document possibly related to song lyrics to mask the malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=aayiram+kannumai+lyrics In PDF document text
    • http://files.abergelebowlingclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681294/6257533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehappyhedon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/04887a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oakdalestampede.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/c4db35b3a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stmoritzlodge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482892/2d6914538.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/1/0428/6621/3031/files/75285527109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6280/3097/files/bikini_body_guide_2._0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3854/files/50775835339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3587/5745/files/gutamapesuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/guxofegexurajijepiroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6340/2905/files/wosoxibanogidexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2611/0885/files/sirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9787/files/fepejekilidivarovetadagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/kovifofotenorajufuwegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3239/5426/files/lugifuzokefupori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4665/files/kibetawavijafeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/engineering_economic_analysis_newnan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5554/6517/files/24611544914.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_off00004ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AB3 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 6625aa89c644963194b60ab64052add9c1ce7e4350a2f769e63c8aa822bacac2
font_01_sfnt_off00005c04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C04 10328 bytes
SHA-256: b9bb536169e286afcccd6d82cd00c8ca6c60017721ed5815363d1d6fd0aff118