Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e40e519b9da445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 06:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cc5a810678a9f66b0821710fde74d8c SHA-1: 9b9cd5d81dbe343598e22f1009754e646b99d944 SHA-256: 38e40e519b9da445d221a98e2de28ff3f1fdf2c902c5c17a015bca75ad885af6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several other URLs hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links within seemingly benign content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=mensuration+class+10+extra+questions+with+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetmaplecafe.co/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607331/d51c9bd8d1086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4736/0414/files/vce_designer_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/national_achievement_test_result.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9137/6794/files/wuvilavokazukibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5531/7149/files/89156657557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nuvororixepexovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2144/2977/files/arduino_nano_3._0_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8856/6677/files/belton_isd_calendar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/25045381670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8438/9275/files/bubblesort_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4690/3701/files/child_smile_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2004/9822/files/50777092215.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_off00005e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E44 5256 bytes
SHA-256: dbf11e3be3ff0eb9ff9b705578b223cfd467ce5318bde4d53ae1f4900fa3444e
font_01_sfnt_off00007033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7033 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 29873636960ed72955d1ae82b890a6ca06cf9bd2c9852552fcc59e74c543267a
font_02_sfnt_off000095be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95BE 16088 bytes
SHA-256: c487aa01613208473e3c0b892de3260687b9c0341624d6c76d95d7849508583e
font_03_sfnt_off0000aa75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA75 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f