Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21ebbab0d37cd38e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 20:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 51b20125bb4801e2595fdc6f2dee9c6d SHA-1: 09abb84fb03e36c6980809ee251e54fae15e9895 SHA-256: 21ebbab0d37cd38e25a5232e9750212755d1111bd6ed96a2ad9500e874a38187
214 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 resources. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+android+pdf+ebook+reader+app'. The document also impersonates a signing service, suggesting a phishing or social engineering lure. The presence of numerous links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context
  • 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=best+android+pdf+ebook+reader+app In PDF document text
    • http://files.myjlstyle.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874031/ritom_pukeziwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mattarian.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383775/3308623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aldersgatecenter.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710795/9682808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timuxijol.theyogasocial.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/5592806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stephaniemeredithart.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814949/jasidagizo.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/1/0433/2745/5387/files/classifying_triangles_by_sides_and_angles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/evento_vascular_cerebral_isquemico_tratamiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0620/3803/files/telecharger_adkar_sabah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3813/files/97220344800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6613/7507/files/bapalizeperer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4564/9574/files/potusowizutawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7217/3733/files/pudunudizeniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5181/0969/files/31142333095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9910/3136/files/tosogiduzupofijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3446/7752/files/91662489168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/91800357297.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_off000076f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F8 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 02cd5b09ef20940c3ffcb29f9a2ad1cd8e746ee65324544f861748ff699e81d9
font_01_sfnt_off000088e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E2 10684 bytes
SHA-256: e85d4c9b88e835eabb85671146d41564b1249194bf6245c3d77258897d8313ac