Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a20ed31a1d2295…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f033bbd5b4f01ba612b5fee1d813514f SHA-1: aa002af3e031e374e73e98f04bd9f349342e1b32 SHA-256: 21a20ed31a1d2295414c54b3e36b861dc7a3903164fe6978399e8e834620bf7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=chemical+names+and+formulas+worksheet', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body text is heavily garbled, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm heuristic suggest a malicious intent, possibly to redirect users to phishing sites or malware downloads.

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/wix?keyword=chemical+names+and+formulas+worksheet In 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/1/0437/2473/4613/files/kidevuziwogufemidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0369/6536/files/ctfa_exam_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8648/7455/files/61829042317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3841/4760/files/carlos_alberto_montaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8212/8291/files/anki_android_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_fa204b09850c4259a68402a29249e77d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_4242ae6cb90c481a82ebaceecf55c12c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3430/3912/files/12264932074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2303/1720/files/88391567909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9986/5756/files/mitavofisewewigiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/4301/9941/files/aladdin_2019_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bapumonotirugapagemuzigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_088317ae5d824175bc32c3c19cc350cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1d005_f9311fb913894f26b67bedc130752904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2274a7_341ea12be5f8499c8060b7528c407a01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b1b6dd5e34a34c318935621fec93e880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15cd4d_92cd93bd2b8749fbaa56ae69ab918897.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_off00006853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6853 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 4320e57721e7fbe08660547b820e7aab02cbf6888228e0693f5c5eb86a59bffd
font_01_sfnt_off00007a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4D 13688 bytes
SHA-256: 34742f10b76738bf449d56c9d998a6e15a0945d62e62ee83e771169c73cb9d20