Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c08024f8ee037b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe4566cfc6c2e1aa3c06afc34c64ef02 SHA-1: 2b2c2ab98251188e4769d03130aae9e66ca1c082 SHA-256: c08024f8ee037b1e574a76f9c9b168b10e9647bf594efe3011798ac7517837ef
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=anthropological+view+of+self+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to phishing pages or malware downloads.

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=anthropological+view+of+self+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.localopal.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712099/gamogutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mezawuf.jeffreyschmelkin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437130/xedakesimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elawrencecpt.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/b678c6e07a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1enchantedcraft.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453018/f579bbcbcb2ef7d.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/1/0431/4906/6397/files/35816496044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2257/3990/files/55668036611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8865/files/41049783562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59854739703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2500/1630/files/sony_wh_ch700n_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5788/8932/files/61288301772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12339474235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3194/3585/files/53203664136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1878/7743/files/gilozonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8566/8255/files/gizudodebalofomimirofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8852/8035/files/monitoring_and_evaluation_framework.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_off000087ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87EF 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 210943976018ed2aa96af26e24bcd4062946efb88ba4a89a42fcb637ef29b77c
font_01_sfnt_off00009adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ADF 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 87c32fb8f4371913bcac33976ce5a56f6e063bf93b57c00508d96a579a9d7228