Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2731071e1ee56f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 593842248d7c4af34952a4d700285a91 SHA-1: d6e73d48cc868341f0cd5d66cb0d432e48192e9b SHA-256: c2731071e1ee56f0ef031661b8c6290662be232135208a7fe7912238ef9c494c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=maths+formulas+for+class+10+pdf+ncert'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=maths+formulas+for+class+10+pdf+ncert In PDF document text
    • http://wenimi.emerystyron.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/b2eb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theopalexchange.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681308/durigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yenway.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874433/e3c4f0466c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.communitychoice.us/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857390/9638766.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/1/0440/2230/0822/files/zutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4267/5608/files/mebulipudibogugeluzuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/95078096602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5456/files/lixamejawagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8119/5927/files/fiber_optic_communications_palais_solution_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8454/files/31668651834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/gilijiniwunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54101174921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6518/6206/files/fepuwugaweginajale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3475/files/46934469777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/sakukejafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8570/2054/files/c_vs_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0649/1797/files/foxusevewe.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_off000077b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77B8 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 0b7b30cdc38b01b54473cbb4c14b5ee77250d356f320d00b8b725d1fba5ad785
font_01_sfnt_off00008aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA5 14352 bytes
SHA-256: 2603e14a9bbe0833a87c37af676788015e6ecef3992f0905216fc8cf47a20333
font_02_sfnt_off0000b8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B2 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 116e1aefc1bdc9fdbdc8bc4ca32ed8fc2a9096b6ae60b76e258fcc2d5524df3d