Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c27f5f9ab0261f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 05:13:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 38ab1bf152e9d7f2173a4a7a16f52daf SHA-1: 332d3bafa15729ee4649f6ee5d0b4283588422e6 SHA-256: 0c27f5f9ab0261f68813d61cd5567c451bf0fb52aa149d1215408bd689b96c1b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to attract clicks. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to funnel victims to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that mirror those found in the heuristics, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution intent.

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=stamford+alternator+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fixmyscrubber.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681855/lanafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harlanparkbaptist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/c66d0bfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jrlakemen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/a18d16ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chestertonantiquemall.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873708/4280704.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/1/0429/8814/2743/files/wamulokixuvudevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bararilisubolubudikolumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5021/2264/files/caterpillar_generator_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2555/files/68780339519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0462/4021/files/lanric_cable_ladder_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.armen.people.ua.edu/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775953/1e8fc0a904b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5743/0176/files/simirerexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2223/8374/files/10492272009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5883/9198/files/21508942829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5792/9621/files/jojotivodivuzejedowovuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6975/7850/files/beluduzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4056/files/wufakitataxarifeto.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_off000057a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57A5 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 0c8efd48f1e826337b2fdbdb8c3b6e999ac478cd1055f48fbfc16669752dca1d
font_01_sfnt_off000069e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E7 13848 bytes
SHA-256: d756436af80f6ad5814844663f51d5026d41bb7a2113c21545fb60d934997e60