Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38fdae0cecbc36d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9ca2e1eeebf0a89418a4de5cb390eee9 SHA-1: 55e7be6ab85692d0ff6bd4a28419df002817cd25 SHA-256: 38fdae0cecbc36d1f5623d5ef17dcf61d8717a8416bf0abe13290c38014119c8
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to a URL designed to lure users into installing browser extensions. The document body also contains the same URL and references to 'chrome extensions offline install'. The presence of a mass external PDF link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chrome+extensions+offline+install, which likely leads to further malicious activity.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=chrome+extensions+offline+install In PDF document text
    • http://files.kristinlukanec.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738644/9b85b575ad7e98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debifeno.weberwaverlywatermainproject.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438416/xorap_mekelumogorub_fosisarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimuvidu.tygoyachts.nl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382133/8443247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zokinar.thomasvasasphotography.shop/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/zadobovabekifew-nozebibu-lajunevap.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/1/0432/6031/3763/files/glossary_of_biochemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5611/0487/files/biology_notes_for_class_11_chapter_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9070/6599/files/biblia_hebraica_stuttgartensia_en_espaol_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4970/5881/files/44254957353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6863/4789/files/corporate_taxation_examples_and_explanations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6719/4021/files/32807815430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9568/5288/files/22831960041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7122/3446/files/fast_carbs_food_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2897/0652/files/solving_systems_of_linear_equations_word_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8368/files/quran_arabic_to_tamil_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1863/3894/files/adaptable_architecture.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_off000067a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A6 4888 bytes
SHA-256: f5fc47ac803bc7076413a95d1fbdb384431a8176ed917038125643f98967f340
font_01_sfnt_off00007818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7818 9900 bytes
SHA-256: c70da0aa76b3c59654fdf4df92561c6aa2d4d8eea445b94b926e61bbc38a25a9
font_02_sfnt_off000099fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99FD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378