Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a01c6edfa15ed37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.1 KB Created: 2020-07-27 14:30:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 881761b4a7f071ca9933616a8f95f879 SHA-1: ce0edadf85927d96a822e39e57aaedb62a3494df SHA-256: 7a01c6edfa15ed3761e184dcec1beb30aca2d7fa77c63eb30a0a317cf614f8a3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, directing users to a malicious redirector. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=panorama+journal+algerien+en+arabe+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The document's structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a spearphishing attachment vector.

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=panorama+journal+algerien+en+arabe+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.upcountryfarms.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680949/bfe32cf4fb2c05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dawes.work/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775905/bivuxoja-gunisa-samuvoriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northshorerhythmics.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/5442721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kathrynprice.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776516/503007.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/1/0433/4406/8773/files/sevafiwimapilofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3117/5063/files/gedaboxanipetalulurakalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jivanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8524/2269/files/83405076691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8780/7129/files/43677076907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4047/2229/files/zujulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/fogama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4809/8209/files/bajafekuvifumovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6844/9180/files/sasinonugefozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7945/0272/files/luleteremise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/57591074530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0831/9907/files/nizorakunilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4546/9858/files/22339928424.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8455 5204 bytes
SHA-256: f757c44cd19c9a3d6288a85b4ce91d5ce3280099c834c91d2f76a1c0f64d98f6
font_01_sfnt_off000095e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95E0 12088 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3ed9ad32bab2a824904a6758b3b567e10b5052609ce17ef9f03654c1811774
font_02_sfnt_off0000bc6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6D 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 56c594585a0de3fa17138b2c97db17756ce4e98fb65518e2075f92215b19b860