Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba079ece8feac71b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 11:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b4f76e4e55304ccc19e27ef8e7941c73 SHA-1: 470836147e21a20506aaa7ab2d35865b473edf78 SHA-256: ba079ece8feac71b54a0d3925d0250c1da613aade9cc28278c3e0d2a84ce989f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cbse+sample+paper+2020+class+12+physics+pdf, which likely serves as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious redirector heuristic.

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=cbse+sample+paper+2020+class+12+physics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.njwrclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/fa56b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sophiamulheran.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813526/1584386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camellahomescavite.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682974/fe61f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cabezonmastiffs.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/xonujovuwojip_rarebifuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nicolajanephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740213/tukoxakavusogezijuz.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/1/0431/5283/4711/files/82427173084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0736/7592/files/12171476599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84312174386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8615/9767/files/20287196838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/fijiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3556/4949/files/architecture_design_in_software_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6488/files/vevorisabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7166/7352/files/pajolutozazodixorozopaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4120/1064/files/11266091840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3233/6791/files/20448640938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0054/2878/files/7890979579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7211/files/34997710205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2279/0305/files/mig_welding_machine_specification.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_off00005fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE8 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 133a2cd40d680e652f41979af38b33a1c770af703c8dc0f400c54be8915b6191
font_01_sfnt_off0000728e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x728E 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 2106597a3d2f3aa33c29daa033dd1703184929c5698230d9d2aeb09603b9ecab
font_02_sfnt_off000095eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95EB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333