Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27d2297f20460277…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b616f66648cb10a668fae902e39890f SHA-1: 1d900f2e08120391305884804fee1335befda08e SHA-256: 27d2297f20460277f7f792362344ce5983dd3d138f300f7bb90ad17b414e3114
194 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 pointing to shopify.com domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'amapiano remix' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to potentially malicious content.

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=bamthathile+amapiano+remix In PDF document text
    • http://files.chianannlu.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380985/07ab156fe366555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spins-uk.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637889/diger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.booksbymarilyn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740062/varin_tudewefaboxo_jutemane_lekiviperumile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daroboj.redcoaching.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871991/3329421.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/1/0434/1117/7629/files/rotaxukevanivowanufenogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9373/6089/files/konulatisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9919/3501/files/20291213208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1149/files/30470355143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7211/files/79611483499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/laxexowuwekejurawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9562/files/gagixezutimajazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9213/0458/files/74307302423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2084/files/95662575268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2753/7828/files/paxegapukuwupesazatuvena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9690/7678/files/opera_hotel_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31082235151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/baxumedufimoval.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_off000058f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58F8 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 3edf5a27bed8c4e011dae8cad92504ff481124a2815d4921009f4da8e2c558ed
font_01_sfnt_off000069cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69CC 9888 bytes
SHA-256: 36df95eafead415f6b8fcb7db9f8bd22d8e6439e67f2538249a9d068edbc0eea