Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60b23a702162af90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 00:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7e2744a458bbb8323cd6f9295cc243a5 SHA-1: 339a69c1ebe53df928a366ca6bd581627e2bad06 SHA-256: 60b23a702162af905b7c7ba9fcf51aadecfa3d35840f69974c25288a3d5dbd66
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cheek+cell+lab+report+results`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Cheek cell lab report results' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the malicious destination.

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.com/pify?keyword=cheek+cell+lab+report+results In PDF document text
    • http://wasora.alessandrofanucchi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739240/7038072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dosofit.astaratours.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/81c19c6dba7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mofflongboards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776858/xafamezoxosimiv.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/1/0428/7243/8951/files/analysis_of_qualitative_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7519/8373/files/sas_statistical_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5765/1613/files/the_last_jedi_metacritic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3551/5290/files/amoeba_sisters_cell_transport_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6705/7063/files/4078993240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2381/9164/files/28415767095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2316/3801/files/764977091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/belajar_tajwid_dengan_mudah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7526/4919/files/love_stories_to_read_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/add_watermark_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/95719173718.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_off00006034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6034 5132 bytes
SHA-256: a177d69f88c9f2c3a2843b8797d07655dadf40cc512f67173533e47196b2d63f
font_01_sfnt_off00007195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7195 9908 bytes
SHA-256: 82215a1f552c8ea06cbfaeaa92986e51fab01ecc6e577ad9f7bf4f2a0ec3e585