Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec8ca927c08210a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0484dfa86e59017d32cd3434c2ded351 SHA-1: bb83ed92c899eb29098a785195f168e559b61a9d SHA-256: 0ec8ca927c08210ac500423faf2e76a4c995b2fcd652ce85d507faed414bc406
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=uniform+circular+motion+answer+key', which is also flagged by heuristics as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content, likely leading to further stages of infection.

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=uniform+circular+motion+answer+key In PDF document text
    • http://files.supremelyaddlecoved.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738837/12998283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hernsbergerlawfirm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379594/tojidefijarutadube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amplifytalentsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871643/f520387d4204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleyinsurance.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/zarak-jafiwuv-liroxaririfag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzan.mimiandhillshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/bafebepum-lisukepufakid-rinid.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/1/0437/4950/7223/files/c_programming_basics_in_bangla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6707/1894/files/20873050447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4913/9880/files/figijiradoxinudakajegaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9290/files/school_activities_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6125/6096/files/25221669761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4779/2288/files/acpc_mba_booklet_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3870/1728/files/oblivion_realistic_leveling.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/90896691070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5802/6903/files/getusenidumozitudana.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D3F 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 8697d666fa8d01316c3240175fec2ba0ec5148a740b80519bb69755ae33767ef
font_01_sfnt_off00007f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F2C 12920 bytes
SHA-256: 0064d7017b35299927157c4236be71e73ab308d6f61d9026963d9d3b5272f47a