Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04724ac55e8d167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 12:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4e82ae858f20c21219c7c15e389c1244 SHA-1: 22e601a6d3f2b7eb828e5df42cd4a3fd66ae4b79 SHA-256: c04724ac55e8d167612aa805db0c3df9a45490b4e7c47055e5dfbabf64a0100e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to external resources, including a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to "Bhagavad gita malayalam pdf file" and the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic. This suggests a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further malware delivery or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=bhagavad+gita+malayalam+pdf+file In PDF document text
    • http://files.jonineleegabay.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969897/4548456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manorumc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398374/1941019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.findleyridgeranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164270/fugepazolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pacificcoastchorale.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606690/rawizezepaxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apartments-lavanda.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437225/nulozemojusevil-romozov-merukaj-ribabapivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/minecraft_server_discord_bot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3914/6662/files/82632151220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/mongoose_aggregate_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5827/3183/files/pdf_neoliberalismo_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9801/3857/files/72282957458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6787/files/nupoxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5430/1338/files/tarusefetefutafenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/57912010765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6926/7354/files/51364544203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9242/6405/files/asset_allocation_policy.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
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000611b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x611B 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 536173f59e45c13622afb7f2a799121414f4a0619cd78d4b490e0fdfb3710e23
font_01_sfnt_off00007365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7365 19128 bytes
SHA-256: 351da918eed6e2dc34eebf8960f492cf1524ef9121a793aaee3c4ec2509b9e1e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE2F 10068 bytes
SHA-256: efdd4b2bef1fbdbd5d727942bfa8f95344fa6fd47fb282f58c18f90867f02f21