Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db2fa15fa304cf54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54216c5612134fa054e4b09bf8bd63f1 SHA-1: a3225aea7a2ae43aa89c4fc8cb2ce7189dab5f0d SHA-256: db2fa15fa304cf54e0f56691d439ce3722d786375c554143f2799114683f46b1
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 external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ajith+photos+hd++viswasam`. The document body also contains this URL and a search query, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content while distributing malicious URLs.

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=ajith+photos+hd++viswasam In PDF document text
    • http://files.iamroyalheir.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379615/keguwomileros-vebekeloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mittminders.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695830/pidokofawifabaz-fexutomagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.queenofwandstarot.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969497/gipaduxulaki-fitugisog-xawomabadepotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.georgeryall.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856433/fa123d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centenniallakes.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382141/taxejedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2328/5928/files/ninoxetiluzixaberuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8868/3932/files/65362888132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/23196958978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2823/9768/files/biglietto_da_visita_formato_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1825/files/ruvagerevefabotegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8055/5419/files/zetoxetusesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8249/0791/files/47773976776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7773/0464/files/tuzusejexi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54D6 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 5adefa81294e41ce15ad0eded4d1a871fd3ca656032b1cfa60a8aa6e4ee7f177
font_01_sfnt_off0000656b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x656B 10020 bytes
SHA-256: ca467b485eb08fdd24712850f1a1c0acf75ccad3373977a552bf3f80f7fee4b1
font_02_sfnt_off000087bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87BF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71