Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b60aea0e2442af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 656864e21b2f96ab46685851404093f9 SHA-1: 4b958c4dc1ea094af57ee3db999c50a97d380aca SHA-256: c2b60aea0e2442af0fb0b4404e5d85b09bb0d741553e29bcff9cb1b3d86673e4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=banarasi+babu+film+song'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external PDF links, including one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting a social engineering lure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=banarasi+babu+film+song In PDF document text
    • http://kokofe.hoodoohealing.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/5220074.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/1/0449/5068/3816/files/7th_grade_math_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3355/1260/files/53567399047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2652/0986/files/carbohydrate_chemistry_and_biochemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2693/2124/files/15986911344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7841/files/american_english_file_4_teacher_s_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/62042090741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/dagoxupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7968/7587/files/at_home_workout_plan_without_equipment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1171/files/66833095168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1207/8243/files/kafawuduxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/44637445933.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB175 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 6befcce9414030de0b1438fada7658f19446da256e10eda4c6e7772dd87725ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000c34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC34C 13556 bytes
SHA-256: 4a1db4e0df71b456eeb9dc7a9e33c54e26b919caf19727bd177e96b94ae0e17e