Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21cc5c1d7b37140c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 776e4375f119c11406c6d940bcb41478 SHA-1: f012bebef3da7146d7d33163b4c5e174aa2165ec SHA-256: 21cc5c1d7b37140c192fe44909d984f0287e9fb4c2065de7cddbc43446e37694
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a lure to execute commands via the clipboard, directing users to copy and paste content into a shell. It also links to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to serve further malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the observed malicious redirector and command execution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=windows+10+version+1803+iso++microsoft In PDF document text
    • http://pikozet.anaesthesiahistoryconnections.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776407/jomifejarovikizivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiwow.farmandhorse.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/bapesubibadov-pesimuximozel-kimuva-rejixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cswithwhitlock.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406701/4791413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canalsigling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696154/manared.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/1/0439/8628/8798/files/sequal_eclipse_5_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2255/7082/files/senomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3631/8616/files/datoxemepobulivaloxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9177/2063/files/5301097046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1927/files/24954887926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/kikofipumurowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/vijifagagekinosewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2670/1718/files/tufanozigojazijimifadeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6128/8868/files/webigexeminifijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/rulubuxikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9539/9325/files/jofutexezababepamumotidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7732/0352/files/suzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9299/6252/files/albert_camus_the_stranger_download.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_off00006923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6923 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 972f18b0b82d7f21ec3fd89386107613e4e50ae0569da0f19479e79f145e234a
font_01_sfnt_off00007c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C65 10368 bytes
SHA-256: abc228de6509aab7ab049fa146e99e08651ba5fe4953cde1d0eddeb9f69f43fb