Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d8ff49c39ac08be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1ed4cf5721803ef70a0bcc73c869b70 SHA-1: 429f35e039e5ca10c342b2ffb434f4a5612381d1 SHA-256: 0d8ff49c39ac08be3f89c2a4009f262d4222ad81dc367708cee31fd137f27cff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to create a link farm, with a primary redirector URL pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the lure text 'Psychology trivia questions and answers' and the malicious redirector URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple PDF links to external sites suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for phishing.

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=psychology+trivia+questions+and+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.jfkjrotc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607063/f92bfee9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turojojen.gmat.amsterdam/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/dofupoxobovi_gevebovikofapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.altswatch.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856446/wisibup_nevigoz_sabirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fawad.gwenrobinsonmedium.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383708/gobulalekufilo-xarakopewamaxu-pobabike-dasudoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2328/files/bozikizotawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6450/0122/files/sonekubivekopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/96679185489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0159/3505/files/michael_lewis_boomerang.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/oc_register_daily_crossword.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9541/5189/files/estilo_de_aprendizaje_visual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7592/0282/files/22512648432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/48668486896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/2465/7056/files/journal_international_about_descriptive_text.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2823/4908/files/xatepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2096/8351/files/definition_of_earth_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2901/8262/files/vadijilavile.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AC0 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 9e40c6c499008bd57502b6944dc8be5a34281c04ef0f0559512c57d8e6a96f28
font_01_sfnt_off00007d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D51 11096 bytes
SHA-256: bbf26e037ddd2ce8a498bc15954b052b6df25bcceb40c924d5764ce5ff898f4b
font_02_sfnt_off0000a314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA314 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2