Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21171463ed7bfa69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8971845a1437368e7fc6fc945600b6dc SHA-1: f975895f4f64b51c2ec78da12e3e9b5444f0e9cb SHA-256: 21171463ed7bfa6958542d2f831a04b413ccbb3bf0c54a28fcf7d1cc2be41acb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=concrete5+documentation+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and another Shopify URL, reinforcing the link-based lure. The presence of numerous links and the redirector strongly indicate a malicious intent to direct users to harmful sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=concrete5+documentation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.oleriaemporium.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/2184947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innercourtdancers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874246/puromuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.campspirit.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407233/mubopib_vonudisevesukov_goden_wopojowoxosakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bakmonastery.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/456e92cefdfd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beruvefip.rlighthouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/nelivo_wijizukoliwed_kenujinolowulum_napugulegade.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/1/0432/9983/1968/files/fekiregisonukobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9874/files/acidosis_metabolica_neonatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4550/6459/files/ahle_hadees_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6105/9482/files/academic_writing_skills_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9553/files/types_of_blood_vessels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2277/7496/files/nipetesowifiwelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3574/4673/files/fasoxegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5702/8001/files/38889824938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5808/6559/files/65939000279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6424/5925/files/ativador_para_office.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9419/6902/files/17779302761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7202/files/teragato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/nejagukasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/biology_notes_for_class_9_in_urdu.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_off00008adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ADC 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 62ccecf91ac47929cbe3d7b1817394ab7523a5dba190a435185510d5e2575321
font_01_sfnt_off00009c33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C33 10524 bytes
SHA-256: c76603bcda552d20276b596720b1344fd841c336c2b9de0cf1cdd9546124204b