Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14aa37c73f72ede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 548083652959b0876e0a650a24a83d60 SHA-1: ccb815a29ee1306c3047a0bb35d5e681370f1975 SHA-256: c14aa37c73f72ede684f96653c2233e3da13531a4325f5f0aae645b2578bd8b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant number of which point to a redirector service. The primary heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'article format cbse class 12 pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. 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=article+format+cbse+class+12+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.heartofachildministries.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712447/e7a59137c8ce5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scentedgrove.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775364/736d015fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.craigmckechnie.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739712/3612940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.empriswright.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452842/87d6bad.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/1/0429/1297/2963/files/dekirerogozutejazekojodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1891/7787/files/mujexinotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dutevitijenunolekegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4647/7725/files/beetle_armor_terraria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/xiserazizefanuminajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/xurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2935/6959/files/22629151215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6472/1562/files/gewutunaruvakanixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9969/9866/files/vemevetagajuvelififodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6355/8815/files/27078577654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48466687054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0683/5358/files/fanupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16651 5616 bytes
SHA-256: e41ab98a8187a74b219c4cb75d78b6c9561e23afa831773dd40d166cda9f1dc9
font_01_sfnt_off00017955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17955 10428 bytes
SHA-256: fabcdc176d1607bf634d6eaceb03ab4bb3dc63eaf0a2eff9ec14d210c32f79d9
font_02_sfnt_off00019ce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CE6 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3