Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38a8616996e830db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-09-17 05:20:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06f86dc1a965706b1222b532b0167bf2 SHA-1: 7412cb46abb2d33f228f38f1537336091db3fc6c SHA-256: 38a8616996e830db0cc189d7de22dd5072a7228689f6d4e44f6386ea8c005a4e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting a broad distribution effort. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the malicious intent. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=fundamental+counting+principle+worksheet+with+answers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=fundamental+counting+principle+worksheet+with+answers In PDF document text
    • http://galomeg.utahact.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740178/4106404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinano.kentfong.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/bubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tachelesstmk.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380094/7652265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexenibat.firststatebaptist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406710/9011247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pianoincolor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776111/kufimopiwubazinogi.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/1/0434/4935/2349/files/multiple_skype_launcher_3._8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2483/4975/files/ditenetafijixipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5823/2480/files/ethiopian_airlines_crash_investigation_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2879/files/52042186660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6064/files/62113780890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/juvovowotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2520/6169/files/cbse_class_9_syllabus_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7222/5442/files/evolve_resources_for_saunders_comprehensive_review_for_the_nclex-pn_examination_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8646/2628/files/xuvibokiposej.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_off0000aebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEBF 2828 bytes
SHA-256: a17885b4fd577e0298a64705d5055d2ac7c2363fd7008e9cf236b3df412a17d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000b8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B9 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 9f75db4626a6cd0c4d21fe51c790adf8613f6b17f77a8931d8d26802e5720440
font_02_sfnt_off0000cbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAF 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 0382efef654ea1737040d2b1355a9a07e8bef452424e03c58fc1d7f6f4f57ef0