Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21f4be0c8d681eb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 06:17:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9a3c6a146d552d754736aa973305ad7 SHA-1: c004ab1139a718e048601700938043db47eb9518 SHA-256: 21f4be0c8d681eb5bab500276e595b2933c411b795668de631da9c9c85c8d042
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. Additionally, another critical heuristic detected a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URL points to a redirector that likely serves malicious content or leads to a phishing page.

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=coordinate+transformation+matrix In PDF document text
    • http://files.gaindetalks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/rokufiwila_wefopiji_sepafatoduva_vusixenetepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.penandnapkin.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857305/futabufizinivobame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thomfogartypresents.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382673/a41f75a030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pycap.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710782/labupivos_vesagidoriro.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/1/0431/5735/6710/files/19487323028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9340/2534/files/83285832360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7917/files/80049420007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8494/8380/files/80862601201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9386/8187/files/guditisazefoxamamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7064/4631/files/xesijiserepajevugujejami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3981/7890/files/21837824726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6290/9335/files/30177022421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9619/3686/files/davadeliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2878/7878/files/unity_lookat_2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3840/7832/files/39835425451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0380/5847/files/duxukolutuxumero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xutuxajaz.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000151c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151C8 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 4b905227272cd39a3e23f2fcb57f1c1ba4e6adb7e302e497b257fc521b4737f9
font_01_sfnt_off000162ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162AD 16540 bytes
SHA-256: d794b90e957c4e21cc9da4c72ddc2d1791bc29441c9a12f59b60507ec84b23e2
font_02_sfnt_off00019690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19690 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 9a423c16be5bdd5f0d4d749fcf0b84e41bab6202433aeae789ffb081933c7709