Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdaa287fb2815e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a7cf0213692afe4e698359b54fba67f8 SHA-1: bc26065eeb4999b4c87cdbd7cb0b45d636445203 SHA-256: bdaa287fb2815e6204492d2a2924a4589dab74c4bb163a9b2f04373ccc52a599
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link, identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, which points to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=banking+awareness+book+for+ibps+po+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of numerous other external PDF links, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, further supports a malicious intent, likely for SEO-based phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=banking+awareness+book+for+ibps+po+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.starkeyspoint.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776573/d7f88ebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weddingceremonypro.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969885/165cdfd2eb50ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myscentsessentials.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407855/2942918.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/1/0430/3169/1421/files/95922574920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/54387246750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xopiforosolakalaxelavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2145/8853/files/xobuzetefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4299/files/vosowilorukewoxetifizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4302/9143/files/georgia_learners_permit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/borutazaweluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/75278808376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78046530146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/fatosuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sogogetuxupoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7231/3751/files/vaporugigeruzikiwidoxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2378/4360/files/42231700098.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6609 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 1638eb78d969429092c43bff468e7a0e55b10f7a07576306810e50f75fa2cfdc
font_01_sfnt_off000078ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78EE 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 33d80b5e357abfa3ea91f5eff18928953f8e36d8e9a7aea158c838e8ae756dd9
font_02_sfnt_off000082b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82B8 14860 bytes
SHA-256: 852bc1f0dd004b4e2b67f5fd4a7bad384fb3404cc58dfccb9035e2a91fab786f

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