Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38dd84b31ae205c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 68166955309391508100dbb889f85992 SHA-1: 8a37dace108f1783d7a741598262b49e01b278df SHA-256: 38dd84b31ae205c900497741427783d3fd09df80c662687c55aef4293e80b0ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the link at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=contoh+altruisme+pdf' points to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests the document is designed to host a large number of external links, likely to manipulate search engine results or to hide the true malicious destination. The document body contains obfuscated text and references to the redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=contoh+altruisme+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.crosswaysholidaycottages.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873944/6425368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnptacek.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969577/welotejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justiceforallcanada.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/mibazama_birefoja_tiboki_zutisopelez.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/1/0431/7465/8197/files/zarunobiledete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9884/7896/files/tamil_christian_songs_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2747/0235/files/87767612867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0454/9544/files/tifr_question_papers_physics_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1548/8163/files/64622033048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7927/9527/files/oxford_bookworms_stage_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7502/7619/files/14020884068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1981/1490/files/59872090609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9209/8724/files/zuturetawukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6149/1365/files/bash_prompt_for_input.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0954/6136/files/segupolunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/pupuluwogibolupir.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F29 5188 bytes
SHA-256: e1da106f7ca897539bdd9bf1b21149bb243396b06c128084f617d9c92341f0c6
font_01_sfnt_off00008097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8097 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 4be0675891faff528947b616d8db8ec8f208100a2ccef6a82ae1bcbc49853752

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