Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f27e2dc8dba33bd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8167e316142b822a80d815cbe93df17e SHA-1: 6336cc56b8f2efdbddc589b3960dba95eb798217 SHA-256: f27e2dc8dba33bd4d0229668af5b13576d17cb547c4bdc64410db8ada7536cc0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a deceptive lure for a 'basic computer course' which, upon interaction, redirects the user to a malicious URL (ttraff.cc). This indicates a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into visiting compromised or malicious sites. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDFs, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for the malicious lure.

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=basic+computer+course+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.dwpboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382387/waxukuxulidawo_kigorisepotunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pclions.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483147/zepixizixa_wekenadozap_rugixapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ombeautysalon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776022/gaxoneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ludloweboyssoccer.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070402/rosevebewagadegibuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelauraxadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/9441184.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/1/0431/0230/6468/files/sunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8706/files/xitizufonaguzamojamidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4312/files/24337551914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2754/5757/files/72660850408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9575/2864/files/kupukidemexudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6254/1982/files/dadofubovowitoxereke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9687/3885/files/bogemafumebevesalojawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1829/5195/files/65486629235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/45017649277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3690/8439/files/95195493195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1188/9573/files/59136144508.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_off00006797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6797 5444 bytes
SHA-256: e6e1f304feba3bb755d3f9c02a470ba31ccf4a1c0873cc5583f244776d2f2301
font_01_sfnt_off00007a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A12 10604 bytes
SHA-256: df9cf97451d57c0f131679fe934a38f63b53f58c88f5995761534b2afe2df7ae