Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c8f920b80153445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9be24d49e708e013b6639c54bbae8cfd SHA-1: 16d970f0ad685b713240b986a3d07b424d7700f9 SHA-256: 0c8f920b80153445f633a793f3b61e42bf0c7db7962e9bf98dd27dfcfeb2c361
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com). This suggests a link farm or phishing campaign designed to funnel users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=advanced+mathematics+1+vtu+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.livshairandbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/3751266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dermmedclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813526/soxurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fmccmath.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682833/8445695.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/1/0429/7129/9999/files/d_d5e_monster_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0561/1930/files/big_biceps_workout_routine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4897/6032/files/fuvivopezomirowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4439/7468/files/39277492627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9291/7924/files/keziditul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8780/5081/files/ytc_price_action_trader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9013/0584/files/affidavit_of_heirship_california.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1600/9374/files/application_letter_for_information_technology_graduate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2398/1979/files/nesukavawizapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0857/9993/files/63364340586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0835/files/computer_full_form_a_to_z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9449/9743/files/pojobofalifewigafejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9721/8458/files/voguwalagoruwojipur.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
🗂 Part of campaign: livshairandbeauty.com 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5441 4904 bytes
SHA-256: 5952dbf13532cbd33054c515cad8807bca76e7b85c82057a6234fceeb6ffc829
font_01_sfnt_off00006564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6564 5368 bytes
SHA-256: b97265cc4d367c7785f877c3ebc579c75ce077d45b63ea3443aba4a88c619e5b
font_02_sfnt_off00007793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7793 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 742b90c804252e4dc56e934953af6b59eb4132526569deeca4f6496f8d8d1aad