Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1f9d766f9db1e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:05:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ed3cb3b97f48462de55556ad044b2e3f SHA-1: b7ed386a4661cef618f9795bfda66af796b6849e SHA-256: 0c1f9d766f9db1e269ece6d310b823f061ca16d07214afc1e831787bc52a08e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a link farm and a redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=harvard+referencing+guide+deakin+university, which is designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to referencing guides and university names, reinforcing the lure.

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=harvard+referencing+guide+deakin+university In PDF document text
    • http://files.mimisclothier.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410747/wazilesuri.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/1/0434/7353/5142/files/17544346621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/zobami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1060/2661/files/mesepafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1720/6946/files/nakiretetolimoxogamoruged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6514/files/90313837217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9013/9549/files/18076085734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4793/4357/files/nigojaguxalazemojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1053/1238/files/canon_7d_firmware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8415/1974/files/m3u8_file_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/zorunakurilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6072/files/lp_anoreksia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1877/2903/files/mesalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8246/files/verarosuparekiladavib.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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009d01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D01 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 658f455077e8962b6c14cbabc60cb37fb76c628d2a9bf4e94979cecd08c9c50d
font_01_sfnt_off0000af4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF4C 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 2a9a5831e9b708c6208f19f508f0a43c8e6be5dcf8a5a1c25c030c18dc29c101

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