Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38297ff9fba2757c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 16:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c355a279592c09a4fd58aa24d6a4b773 SHA-1: 27de571f56e032df74b09ab2bf058d926a86cb41 SHA-256: 38297ff9fba2757c178f530bba468c4be6ae10614677ae9a32b8e227759884f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely as a SEO spam or link farm tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=class+12+cbse+chemistry+book+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains similar text and URLs, reinforcing the lure to click on the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=class+12+cbse+chemistry+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thesurge.cc/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483053/dodivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ourcluster.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814030/paseximizamima_libin_gexefitapuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.staceysandiegotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/jipemumegusadufigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6965/1606/files/gogijisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6897/1418/files/49093705144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5580/0739/files/seropikuselapotevisewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/peavey_vypyr_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1946/4867/files/bsc_maths_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1196/files/vomemikevolokuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1455/3763/files/ruwivedomatilafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/fubagexefofabekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/gatalobobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6244/2661/files/39379252549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3646/7623/files/amiodarona_biosintetica_bula.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_off000081ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81ED 5792 bytes
SHA-256: dece63927a44d146e376071ed38d10cc116de37be95a2fe7ec4a14db761e077a
font_01_sfnt_off0000957a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x957A 10084 bytes
SHA-256: a9ec8c41503cbc0fea5f964c745e7b41cc941ca4de7ae0fcf08ff9de324e61c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000b851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB851 3260 bytes
SHA-256: aa0141ef1983ca6a1e75555c5f201f5e267198d67577c6d264f88900ae5ec0d3