Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f740ff8b20ce272c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a8494793f43cbdc673a4961e9f207de8 SHA-1: e050a778b31c9026a65498a77fcbcb1a37ca8f13 SHA-256: f740ff8b20ce272cbd9aded9d0d853abc51eca24142b4e4d965d429cd0c14e54
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, designed to obscure the ultimate destination. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com, which is likely used to deliver a malicious payload. The document body text, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to downloading a book, which is a common social engineering tactic.

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=atharvana+vedam+book+in+kannada+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.misfitcrusaders.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814672/634f8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nienkemink.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968920/bevuxebusosobogati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abbydecoratingden.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/6279810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hckoolau.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380001/zumir-giwamosuf-gopoxov-patawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.childrenschattermatters.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696112/464ae.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/1/0429/8748/7395/files/93114640827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4495/files/denogexubigugewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/mamumubukasasirenagotufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9896/files/dasakuparipuzesuwanelabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1564/3041/files/guwaxofikijowowizunutoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/dabug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7004/5864/files/bupofuvirodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8311/files/6620687269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5190/0310/files/72581752102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/mutido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1017/8717/files/9260119906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1578/files/sedevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5423/4785/files/xefemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8191/5802/files/xisibiteruduwazur.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_off000051ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51CA 5324 bytes
SHA-256: d60ccd73f39e198deb20f9acfb2f5f2028aed0916567c90864761e2484ac6dee
font_01_sfnt_off000063be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63BE 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 81aab4967b4281c6a0755ee7b9f5121d14ef7b9879cb09a59a13d4c473aa5920