Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90440574f1c7df6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 02:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 42e6a302ad95afc27e5b5d2ce0573777 SHA-1: e0111475b0dbee34f40990e28b9fa746eedbafb3 SHA-256: b90440574f1c7df627d5919bc5c4cfc0fc761a736d537e3ce12f10402e638bdd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=arya+movie+songs++naa+songs+telugu'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further suggests a tactic to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted, but the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.cc/pify?keyword=arya+movie+songs++naa+songs+telugu In PDF document text
    • http://files.lexcoffeecottage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874533/ebbd88878ee1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turegu.refugejc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/82dc4a92.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/1/0439/4686/8891/files/65562098192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0828/4056/files/bolabebipewepurovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2976/6039/files/baxiwonirosowibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9684/2142/files/40137472181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0313/4627/files/mexaditiropabudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5608/4630/files/56579963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0817/files/26481970571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8043/3302/files/dictionary_of_political_science_terms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9606/3652/files/swot_analysis_marketing_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1943/6185/files/2_afbeeldingen_samenvoegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/vowutarisimejuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/kubifanuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9420/4825/files/tixajoj.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_off00004db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DB8 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0dbfd8adc734b8e93f0c7b0bd2c8196e1a9961a25b1af454aacbbe71f31c2b
font_01_sfnt_off00005f3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3C 9816 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe6e722d7264050ca9a9d250d44d9ccb6350b95abcdc3850a4aab605acd7137