Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8119927ffcddf016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 06:21:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 86015e9db1a3537a90b285f4152e93e8 SHA-1: 1aa5d28f019601f85b92d0b264588f9f66ec9e7f SHA-256: 8119927ffcddf0167f38779c870c0dd51c5bbe33d63194a9504a6ba9925f83de
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service and then to a link farm of other PDFs. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=asu+uniform+setup', which is likely used to obscure the final destination and potentially for SEO manipulation to lure victims. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing.

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=asu+uniform+setup In PDF document text
    • http://files.musicdepotrocks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696044/6639480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gravityalternativemovement.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813639/8779145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zushkabiros.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/3306636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.imperialphotojkt.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303117/189443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nejumpersassociation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380063/3964024.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/1/0429/9993/9235/files/zudegubogamigosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5032/6421/files/pizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7084/7131/files/jogilezusebokebasetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12319118289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1708/3803/files/49876659278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5827/4205/files/ranaboverekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8725/5970/files/40938436579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5114/7676/files/15929346306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8902/files/jobadufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0364/2007/files/rutijipofofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/fixunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7240/5157/files/lorenamowovefapolamafunok.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_off0000649d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x649D 4792 bytes
SHA-256: 69f57460897eafadf67850160ab5bb36442ed7371bc791bd6b842a592adf172d
font_01_sfnt_off000074d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D6 10092 bytes
SHA-256: e09f3aa7c8b27805fd5b5776b4f73b8848c9a4f4792641ee968135404ed4b714