Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fc0d0f26cecbb64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: db9c1f747f5e41703fbbb300ad25f12b SHA-1: 3b72a71b1e5fdae8f4cb944f0db0b7f8e2663941 SHA-256: 0fc0d0f26cecbb64160f13e28cfa1b0fd2a4852d272b06b6daa550138d9b81d8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=list+of+basic+adjectives+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is part of an SEO link farm or a phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites or host malicious files. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a large, distributed network of seemingly legitimate documents pointing to a central malicious resource.

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=list+of+basic+adjectives+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tulipanproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/2308318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bootedmiles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438468/5428990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.healthyexplorer.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/nosifevakig-jebefasip-zanosu-somalimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxax.eq-apparel.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/luvob_zafekefokava_rodikemoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artdecuivre.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163590/lukavuru-kazoposureberow-wozewowetiker-kukixatox.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/1/0431/7921/2959/files/affirmative_tu_commands_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6783/4517/files/az_900t01_a_microsoft_azure_fundamentals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7606/6207/files/95615364909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1003/8683/files/darkness_reborn_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9159/1317/files/44948541195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6678/3899/files/63554762764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9777/files/jamifejirobobugivunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5555/7282/files/brocade_san_switch_configuration_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7084/7131/files/phonics_dance_alphabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6353/2951/files/neurobiology_of_mental_disorders.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4934/4421/files/14187611874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/bokatevolirepawugajex.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_off00005edd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDD 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 806c3f271eb570c78773e38b87a456e557892221290e9dd524f4e0502d4e2a4b
font_01_sfnt_off000070cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CB 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 12723ffab029499b776d2f89ec1a03ce10b2f3ae588a75bbb8eea200e8a7c312