Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc4138fcb4bc6862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-07-30 08:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 31c4634b93f3c4064968fbc68cd73a6f SHA-1: 28fa43ce65dd6591b3f3a7c93eda296725c82d40 SHA-256: fc4138fcb4bc68624ce8d591443eab9257b169a9b560d5b8a2160594bd6dd2ba
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=botany+questions+and+answers+pdf+in+tamil. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Botany questions and answers pdf in tamil', likely to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique to distribute the malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=botany+questions+and+answers+pdf+in+tamil In PDF document text
    • http://files.pipinchicksilkies.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815178/4e6d589a4c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sterlexlabs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969438/dedikolupokegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jemmasdogtraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775666/nupajetif_daliwar.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41841620016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5181/7879/files/61178251656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3387/7914/files/66823081152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7055/3238/files/40752683658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/pafijajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/9814753995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/motutapovisodate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0737/7561/files/xeremanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/47116564291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4681/3344/files/dafuziwezogowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6999/7207/files/71167536498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8389/0850/files/33593894095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3935/0181/files/denizaxubezipikaxidaweke.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_off00007369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7369 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 1bb279ae9938d53090bf944b29315e976aa7c5e0df5b2b41f06c5b99c8da0250
font_01_sfnt_off000085e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85E2 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 00154c6349a3548da529778bb8bbf848c340c27eebf230b7ea5d2cc2f80d6b2c