Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027090301e3899d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 20:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 600b03034b80f37b2ad95496ea57437c SHA-1: 61708c4db24a5337bc8473baa3f7972af05fb810 SHA-256: 027090301e3899d73057f61a9775d49bd562cfacc278587f9c9597dbf61bb644
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/pify?keyword=avatar+the+last+airbender+pixa In PDF document text
    • http://files.operationfreedomdogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437457/jisosajujesapu_zuwozaxixa_xanazewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.philsguitarhouse.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/551780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fmvolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163898/fefurupulumolazal.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/1/0433/3892/4181/files/78068232759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5222/6974/files/kipelakupigopigitisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0049/4241/files/lonuzojipixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5313/8591/files/pinibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8156/2280/files/bogipuzasafikevatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6845/7122/files/11627626165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1060/2661/files/butas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/collide_lyrics_kid_rock.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/denedawijamewuvuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9157/4430/files/31537568985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6937/2576/files/44638413218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8969/0773/files/80455042587.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_off000087cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87CC 3572 bytes
SHA-256: 9d73b18b2744409ac69a249604414e90ccc30d9d106ba0462d09302c371f4108
font_01_sfnt_off00009474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9474 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5ae5fb95441d2ccf85dfba15722b9952fe49d7da4fddad2a4179691e32e8e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000a680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA680 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 1caf5e948ff23cf09e96cacea2bea895c859ec67613be8c3cd12b3fece6aec4b