Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d389d0aad2cdb36a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:46:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52c8f043651be4bafe33a649cf630ece SHA-1: bdda2c6f23a90f1c22945ec99578bdcdc2bcf6ca SHA-256: d389d0aad2cdb36abc8e85cb23d0137a601d0530cceef7e51fc46b7809feac98
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=ak%20jain%20physiology%20pdf%20for%20mbbs, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an intent to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a strategy to appear as a legitimate resource while funneling users through the malicious redirector.

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/wb?keyword=ak%20jain%20physiology%20pdf%20for%20mbbs In PDF document text
    • http://xetivuvo.ahhs2020.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/6924901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jaynardiscounts.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712206/bebeve_vixaraxofireb_bebulezoduxakuj_temik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.walcoleather.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740350/xefisedejuxigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obrienclan.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606331/gedinodu-sajufomesej-wegudisurej-kaletibaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littlescreenplay.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/4693664.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/1/0446/2454/3907/files/1_minute_10_second_timer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9600/7065/files/glossaire_anglais_des_affaires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/bowoganupebebobiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/gerimagejutuxawifunilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9419/6902/files/27068215334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/67075054733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9830/0823/files/25498063105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4707/3445/files/what_is_broadcast_domain_and_collision_domain_in_networking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3161/5909/files/bowigewowafaliparukeferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7497/7945/files/thesis_about_teaching_strategies_in_mathematics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7806/5055/files/sekuvexorilape.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_off00004784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4784 5828 bytes
SHA-256: 22331c0d53c9404ddb7ba4971b4662229385775b28a24af61266fcfcbde122d0
font_01_sfnt_off00005b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B30 9520 bytes
SHA-256: dc19601b3ba65a61e1469ffbd1b5b14cedfaf9dc2fc8de4fc507027a8cb692bc
font_02_sfnt_off00007c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C08 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ebd2804bff382343e08f6a42dc45f69f4e794c08b23908ae60ba78ededae74b1