Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027168d835fa4e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-27 17:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 49aaa00cf26bc62eae5befdbaae64b17 SHA-1: c55dd90555f8655fa101763df41df3498adf3b41 SHA-256: 027168d835fa4e779e3843debfb4ceae0632c7fce4796efb4a119ae354ef2edd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cannot+manage+active+directory+certificate+services' is identified as a malicious redirector, likely serving as a lure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'active directory certificate services', which is likely used to make the lure appear legitimate.

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.com/pify?keyword=cannot+manage+active+directory+certificate+services In PDF document text
    • http://files.morningrosehouston.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969169/75961a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://welodak.generationxgoesglobal.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695643/jofepoxidoma_sogekomumu_ludeliz_vuroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tmichaelstone.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871952/09e21c4bc4086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fairwindsvilla.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637919/xuvid_titokolevotaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zurunuje.reveriewatches.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636813/dokafalizojulomuzog.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89647405972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8017/9093/files/tomiwowefinosoginogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/acdelco_brake_pads_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3066/7673/files/21755182015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1648/6040/files/21467398227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5026/1911/files/putting_on_sunglasses_emoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0036/files/77862301861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8286/5047/files/the_ascents_of_james.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/performance_appraisal_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4363/3822/files/95195079840.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_off000050a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50A2 5284 bytes
SHA-256: a91f842ed599731e5ad66a30715487b25cdada6ae48c75fa29de10982a9d5d35
font_01_sfnt_off0000628f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x628F 9988 bytes
SHA-256: 88d17fafbc9abab9776b7a0b71d8d318c2d71fa7f8f75a468317d9be3c9b7d63
font_02_sfnt_off000084d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71