Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60fec7dcf91c2d54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 17:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9a7e77168d787f2870f2238955c2eaa SHA-1: 630641ca7dd6bf3a6dbda7f88bf8436edd36d0c8 SHA-256: 60fec7dcf91c2d541f311a6c9a7c94538a24813b920bee936a67cf6371ed79f0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one that redirects to known malicious infrastructure ('ttraff.cc'). The document body and heuristics suggest a lure related to an 'answer key' to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links points towards a link farm or phishing attempt.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=kcet+2020+answer+key+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.adarksouvenir.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775102/xonasovolejanuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doxujosi.finsfurguide.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/4749742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eriksbracelets.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/zogofem.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/1/0439/1760/7067/files/download_novel_battle_through_the_heavens_bahasa_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/katedaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2501/files/xisinaxanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6371/3690/files/48685410591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/xifekutifisazigitiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6660/5211/files/zebefupirexuxojejinobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1791/files/binisefegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/age_of_empires_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0041/2835/files/centrifugal_casting_seminar_report.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_off00005dfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DFB 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 85869833e9def942acfd8f9cb874af3f043794ce6dee0638f35563110023d0a6
font_01_sfnt_off00007136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7136 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 82b7ba70af4b16133d9213395af9a49c8b9edb0cf8946fbcb725d496e5074469

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