Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38273d0853d8066d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6281d1b715cb92f766315c1b11dd9aac SHA-1: f5f8d3b82d8cd5a35e37afdff03b438b76d23b4a SHA-256: 38273d0853d8066d1ee8fc87fe789e1cca6dfa028641e4f557209bbdaf1214ae
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and embedded links reveal a lure related to 'ethical dilemmas in business pdf', which redirects to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ethical+dilemmas+in+business+pdf'. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=ethical+dilemmas+in+business+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.charlestonctc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813851/644a0ec8bf5189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annact.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/2373643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulfoodstudios.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/3c16cf48336.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/1/0432/7620/6238/files/defisoludofalefozineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/beowulf_full_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0326/4667/files/cmo_sobrevivir_al_acoso_psicolgico_en_el_trabajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3967/7861/files/90667131434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3763/files/51939106730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8792/9245/files/wasumupisakerosaxirarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9050/2042/files/55389120277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3927/7734/files/zuwagalineve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7359/1703/files/53847239634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7804/8162/files/biochemistry_by_lehninger_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6421/files/17912768540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1140/0102/files/sparknotes_les_miserables.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/download_buku_akuntansi_manajemen_mulyadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4541/9173/files/65042263816.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_off0000786f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786F 5396 bytes
SHA-256: cc6d82f967e9168bb0c73dcabbe44e0511ee0215c6970438a60a179e50d9d520
font_01_sfnt_off00008aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA4 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 0f77a3a54c9f21f4ed05b8775b0d617e50e51a115510a697c315ec33ceccc5b2