Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38652a01981aeda1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2020-07-26 18:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b18a97c16dc375253688e44c9bf0392e SHA-1: d9c12a7452b9a2776533b2e0b329bf0b650211e3 SHA-256: 38652a01981aeda1aaa0936a2d76df174a073fa8a0888d61b7aec460687c8f2e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. It also exhibits PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM behavior, embedding a large number of external links, with the primary malicious link being 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=berserk+movie+4'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Berserk movie 4', likely serving as a lure.

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=berserk+movie+4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.nashvillephotographyclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969169/sunuvisubido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wcgme.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739119/5484971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tnvolstatewinnies.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/zuzajolufapewi.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/1/0431/4795/2292/files/55470434448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gamawogedeveredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8945/9368/files/reseveneburenewelibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2490/0515/files/73724214169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9575/2864/files/4477013822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8422/6453/files/duzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/nibuxunezikadidabuzipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2258/0886/files/debobufeboxiranum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1618/2166/files/73777622100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1547/files/jeganibipavesipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94393320092.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000097c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97C9 14508 bytes
SHA-256: 9264faca02fadbccf25760c05c8196a262c8c82941c6129880c341a652d4492a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6FA 4452 bytes
SHA-256: 9e91fcf7118c408d22b5c4a39db989ad7e477685e3507e2ee18588411d55e95a
font_02_sfnt_off0000d61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD61B 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 149f40f267dc0fa84352bf9fb0b623992bb7d79527664281d076ddbe31d7f350
font_03_sfnt_off0000f952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF952 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed423fd6f64a2accaab24a388a557cab9318e50e2ef4475c53ca1e35efe0f17