Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c215090bfb07dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f56d621f95c7f2653daac3d8496dca2 SHA-1: 0840c45b230469ba35fb181723adfee0e1b15d39 SHA-256: 0c215090bfb07dc1a6d7781e379de1c5107aeb571cfd92acd8a0034f9347b6df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document acts as a link farm, presenting itself as a "Data science and big data analytics pdf" to entice users. It contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, but crucially redirects through the malicious domain ttraff.com. This suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, likely as part of a broader SEO-based lure campaign.

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=data+science+and+big+data+analytics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vincentstocklin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739626/9471166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saradotyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695258/2286092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.finalfinishdetailing.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/levin_linebedanelu_vidaki_vukadidi.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/1/0446/2634/6147/files/osu_taiko_skins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1310/4028/files/sinusoide_hepatico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7379/7285/files/23178378539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bopeberovejaxurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8316/0983/files/sugiveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jexisobipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8070/4405/files/tapunuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6939/1527/files/xolumorinatasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9141/8518/files/datirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2677/6227/files/darinigosirevusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3321/5644/files/94776047328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6045/3785/files/momegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2222/9397/files/91114171552.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_off000064dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DD 5468 bytes
SHA-256: c0e0dcf0b6ba09899d37ea8751577128f2ec58e40dcdfa33fb74abd217e5bcb1
font_01_sfnt_off00007788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7788 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 86c77c03a93b81fd32ad1d33f114235f5d7a292fdd641fe986f175764d4f865b

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