Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f7c90dc914e33b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f5087245b724d4484a62db5fb54fdcd0 SHA-1: 6d55cb5dd4caffacb4418a823af5d570b01e8f94 SHA-256: 0f7c90dc914e33b44607333a426bb2cdb35706fc5d8565576eb4c066d1a0b329
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to redirectors and SEO link farms designed to obscure the final destination. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=person+centred+theory+in+counselling+pdf, is identified as malicious. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or scam campaign aiming to lead users to malicious content.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=person+centred+theory+in+counselling+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ulockitselfstorage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/8436405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maryloutrinkwon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814716/2bfd74acd4d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.3wheeldriveonline.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379496/jaremiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.foundationforpoliticsandleadership.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438567/0857c5.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15900382268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4861/5579/files/42157635113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4494/files/best_pc_golf_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7628/0729/files/90705198315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gegexovikorojirokelaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/vexirukanolidevalujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4610/8312/files/86380283350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9505/5777/files/wumegasele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2250/0518/files/84783800420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5661/0979/files/momubogozijivakulepamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/75388652185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4044/8410/files/causative_verbs_have_get_make_let_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/52238697369.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_off00006331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6331 5312 bytes
SHA-256: ad1f672b88912862f5c837ba594b77def46db24370ddfa45c5644369a2505482
font_01_sfnt_off00007545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7545 9740 bytes
SHA-256: 2154b1c75d4f4d5e27d913a18f1e30e439d7c42d2d8805bff7b2aa0af1a2f869