Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38b660d750b184e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 19:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf0062575d3f9a549b7fd928100e8245 SHA-1: 41866d7092d8fd99252da702aa4ac74933574e36 SHA-256: 38b660d750b184e4c14d1b418e2815540d948a60d1c4b8dc026334db72b565c8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to host SEO link farms. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pump+selection+guide+grundfos', which likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a download button lure reinforces the phishing attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=pump+selection+guide+grundfos In PDF document text
    • http://files.drakecreekkennels.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710603/kuzarukokujodazena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eugeniojedimartinez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776151/dedunomirozite_bodewesem_sinolorekesawab_sogozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fakisajip.harmony42.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739275/lunitekowanevin-riluruzevogem.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/1/0432/6585/1542/files/bengali_language_movie_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3019/2039/files/87609237677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5572/7260/files/sorcery_gamebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8545/4750/files/17975660146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/jspdf_autotable_multiple_tables.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9241/4369/files/fuwarowasakexupobukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7446/7478/files/51173059162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5032/7454/files/navarolifojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/25575429916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/57667900277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3935/files/fesokasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/gufafunozuviliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8924/5861/files/74338621897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7282/9078/files/63270931203.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_off00006123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6123 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 16398fe04c6ef708508d294e3628a149ffc7d3cafc495e3441252d972e56d451
font_01_sfnt_off000072f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F3 14328 bytes
SHA-256: 4c740868f9f75306cf6b3500598db97a9e175b17af51850601bf50531e9cf801