Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e017c530f45f41e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2020-07-28 13:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 761ef1050ce0ab2421523be6ab6682f2 SHA-1: e253f9595d785f0ed4a1f07301ef59c01483da6d SHA-256: 0e017c530f45f41e8aac1306d96bd2b8ad0d90c4b930f8bf5ef1513aadafcceb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) disguised as a journal download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Journal of biogeography pdf', reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=journal+of+biogeography+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.northpalmbeachlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739697/bomutovipixojuriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thegovernorspub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738614/mawabiwikaveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.candleendscottage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/2545652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uglybugaboo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/8f20523e1d13a88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.complete-service-builds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438312/novatovu.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/1/0427/9091/2159/files/gonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3714/5753/files/63965177117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7002/9975/files/nukawogenejedowagupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0401/files/reditigifigoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0267/files/61129967127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5565/1743/files/nimaxonajumido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2988/files/besogatademikitojofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3543/4901/files/kevagixodiluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1149/7366/files/23592225016.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_off0000e1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C5 5160 bytes
SHA-256: a7f393e9c5b051ca37f063afa373ec70f643fd4feb532ff6c673ebb512b250ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000f346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF346 10632 bytes
SHA-256: d99f2a74b65401f72dbbf24aff05e715bb963f5cb1b8c472b7c9e913283b24b4

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