Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd94213275ddee3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-07-30 04:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fed4abd01615d1162df5b3a03bfd2f69 SHA-1: 40f1690edf0f4261699406b30bb4f3a29f3be507 SHA-256: cd94213275ddee3be8d2355ab34f7ab88348fd09a03786c98ce418806e5db81c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a Marathi PDF, likely a lure. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link.

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=shri+ganesh+atharvashirsha+in+marathi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cpathleticboosterclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814076/tesupezosekowi_difigaj_ninokurexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.royal-obrienclan-uk.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696414/dujilenexipodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carriedolan.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070331/buwedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amaranthineartist.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741081/xotinurugoz_xebixadukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosemariequinn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776476/ef7586538b.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/1/0427/4978/8327/files/30142963121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mukevomisuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7482/9987/files/resemixapoleritoxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/9399769280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1308/7142/files/livunagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6402/5493/files/14928229179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/raxuwileguwujubafejitodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4642/0136/files/tevosuxezogudodudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1325/7885/files/guwiwexoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9707/9460/files/waxetaxuvulosivubokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3058/5250/files/73465237647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/44061498208.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D77 5264 bytes
SHA-256: a4b86e064160e10cc0ba056d7b2b07281087f984b127587058d38c55de341442
font_01_sfnt_off00006f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2C 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 40ef96da86b6123d577d475be460de15c41b9ca7393a8e650be4e9942aa3c64b
font_02_sfnt_off00007a8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A8D 9840 bytes
SHA-256: 60f7a607d215ec3a0eab405cfd8dd79caf68deaf96b86a8fe428961b06caed8d