Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c21497da7ac8a17a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:09:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 911e6ba94a2e6a0aa2a29511a0739e44 SHA-1: fe08f732407a45be4501551dbd4b7cba763e29c8 SHA-256: c21497da7ac8a17a201d78751be47411fd2fd4ad2543c7af7af937d1057377be
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are hosted on Shopify domains but appear to be part of a link farm. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is presented to the user as a tool to convert PDF to Word. This suggests a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=convert+pdf+to+word+with+ocr In PDF document text
    • http://files.mygraceboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453821/gexuwesalifivez-xunudek-zusovalorala-kekujutamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tojedoka.restorationchurchgb.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/jazoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sabrinafaudarole.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406806/vijiwotate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fepodor.sewakwelfaresociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776680/gipukasep-wizewipemowezak-tebanojafej-vivuduwumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellnessbidet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453394/9992305.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/1/0432/7168/4256/files/bartlett_1932_war_of_the_ghosts_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6590/1210/files/90581326456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32377204601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5258/9465/files/xeredevuvabebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4104/4118/files/20749079963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3707/3314/files/givunatamosoludevozupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/vasibuwatexariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2331/6630/files/26225681084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/80031319670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75904593322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9885/5837/files/edital_prf_agente_administrativo_2020_funcab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1851/0745/files/worotibiwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/57332497741.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_off00005be5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE5 4880 bytes
SHA-256: 2df67dc894df5d36b0924378334290d9ddb0d93f6bee01b54c4e4a24f97cf134
font_01_sfnt_off00006c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C92 10192 bytes
SHA-256: cbb198f2a92001d71880b4855b4ed6135d9c8584d4d4330aade7305d4942f977