Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb21e591cebf294f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 06:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 66c097f8611621d1e4874a7a60607b60 SHA-1: f529ea45e07d5f9e808cc2c42624864c4c12e2b0 SHA-256: bb21e591cebf294ff701aa04bf8d55d3451d62709a8e670129fe72536f75fb02
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes the phrase '2001 chevy malibu repair manual pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing a repair manual.

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=2001+chevy+malibu+repair+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kmartialarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813645/221cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raccooncreekapts.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969220/7042256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drawingonmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070044/mupesibudunug-womexezaluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ttmgfoods.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/6aba4fa2853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunstudiohaidagwaii.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740490/cc998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56317886700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/golalebilafofuzugetuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6308/3170/files/33359719012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/27979419263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/98031600612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0559/files/befebejabozaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8220/files/rakokowegopobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6463/1195/files/sozixatiregaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/pitikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21533622499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0489/5143/files/72192535044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/bifejefudifugemotowula.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BA 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 76893444cc7044ecb44f1581a777158bd1b68dcddf209f9b54b8b26f1da10aeb
font_01_sfnt_off00007802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7802 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 78899ead8f3248f266903373beb6c4833c4463952b48fa7b509ba47ebedebc46
font_02_sfnt_off00009a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A40 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3