Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b0f43318a5dd7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 09:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a5706c155212b89ccaed68814849736 SHA-1: e4a2dcfe4192474c3df2cf47b3401f9c0b9143d7 SHA-256: f0b0f43318a5dd7c797bb059449e3605862d25148a3faf56ffd63951afd166ee
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=classifying+organisms+lab+28+answers', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to download or access content, likely leading to further malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic reinforces this interpretation.

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=classifying+organisms+lab+28+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.ankorsvolunteer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739693/fazijisuwojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myroamingspirit.me/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813888/josesoxudaw-zizeteduruk-mezagiveverapi-litotosisofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/7045748290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8560/1695/files/wexarixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7058/4987/files/asme_codes_and_standards_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8383/files/the_quest_daniel_yergin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1931/3053/files/karen_carpenter_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9973/2633/files/partnership_firm_accounts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5400/files/zowevusurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4188/8155/files/dirifetotumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1798/4410/files/53796934180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8502/8758/files/mowiganitaxozugivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/nikon_sb_600_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8863/2213/files/68683790166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9639/9269/files/medical_tourism_articles.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000aeac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEAC 5476 bytes
SHA-256: e74dae9266ab8618f61f220f294f7f508c3c6abe65c78e0c5b9103bbde441b74
font_01_sfnt_off0000c143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC143 10664 bytes
SHA-256: e2bcc5295beaf6ce7b47832fa198d22e2bdbfef8994f5ad6d062922e3d04dcc4
font_02_sfnt_off0000e549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE549 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378