Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c51ce4c1d67c2a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:24:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b60d1cfda75c713b0b6a69e31283f2e8 SHA-1: 570e12d33ad4506251968bf592bafd1d7fb82852 SHA-256: 0c51ce4c1d67c2a0b04b4ea5f5a589226415504f24b625f391a856e99de174e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain the same redirector URL and a benign-looking PDF file hosted on Shopify. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt using a lure of free sheet music to entice clicks to malicious infrastructure.

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=flight+of+the+bumblebee+sheet+music+clarinet In PDF document text
    • http://files.clintoncemetery.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380625/vufuxowuxokiwa-nowebuvemox-jawaza-rabidekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedijog.scorpiontv.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775422/bababinuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thissiteisunderconstruction.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682542/besozig_binuvidudenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamaxi.wrangellsda.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683292/81d2d854a87886f.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/1/0435/8235/7663/files/pepidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3156/8290/files/loxuledumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1804/4063/files/femaferimezarezisazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5346/9083/files/map_of_benue_state.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2190/0696/files/24699860174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3975/8235/files/zirezawexilumero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0351/6824/files/52879827913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7394/6275/files/ratetutalajopexitaxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7831/1326/files/remove_duplicates_from_list_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9382/7485/files/7818615649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/bless_the_lord_guitar_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5749/4693/files/lil_wayne_something_you_forgot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3304/files/zapelakeboxarojasakemofa.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000636d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x636D 5392 bytes
SHA-256: edb1a16b1ff6cdcbbc427158606646115c5fc8b57e8c1802cfb7a514a6afda87
font_01_sfnt_off000075a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A8 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 3d59353c3ddfbbeff41950012e7ff7b87a2ded23e2215d1bf7abba955c40e2f3
font_02_sfnt_off000099da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99DA 16100 bytes
SHA-256: b330339415d7fa9c1b652c1fb2a052ec06569061b7b71506ab53161dc9b94742