Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1627ba6ea0a633a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:18:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d74a06ab7bfe613801699b197b4bf8dd SHA-1: 44eb9f251338e61345b6bdfd89db47bb7509ea20 SHA-256: 1627ba6ea0a633a267eae0f4cfbb5f8e90af7321860ea57c3e6e63663aa574eb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure for free downloads or tutorials. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or scam attempt using a link farm.

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=autocad+autolisp+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thisisfire.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740692/5d8f7c34ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hudsonvalleygarlicgrowers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070859/gabugalam-pugobajepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.watips.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969085/tefiwibajizu-pokotuvotaxomi-tikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xobapu.ldowingslaw.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/vofikufu.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/70354855800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8588/9689/files/webmail_uth_tmc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6339/1894/files/executive_protection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3149/3784/files/98962609930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3437/0470/files/maposakune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1800/files/epsilon_alt_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9664/4511/files/87972595893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9032/1313/files/20161081702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9045/0334/files/jalaruvibolokigeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2081/2441/files/fivem_prop_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/vodojelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7355/2040/files/roxoroxofexijuf.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_off00008023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8023 4796 bytes
SHA-256: d0f9ae40a518e9c1336138f3abac604c3eb1795e3326283c4a4505f7244a195c
font_01_sfnt_off0000907e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x907E 13440 bytes
SHA-256: f24702b24269f3838a57d4a97bcfa65c33142f7c9a408308485bd19008a08a2c
font_02_sfnt_off0000b9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71