Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e38a036c3ff85ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b2778d1091d4b0a636c58be31756439e SHA-1: 5e5e526ede00222d4fd32a630b877ea25ff73f34 SHA-256: e38a036c3ff85ac00e5436a309e8fe9bcca81a06f9322ecc723dad9945a2897d
194 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. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+purcell+9th+edition+pdf', is designed to appear as a legitimate document but leads to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+purcell+9th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.omanroadshow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776841/kasulojemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greatlakescockapoos.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163904/nagamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wukeni.robinlewismusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814110/33243.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/1/0449/2269/9943/files/84203535019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/roxebajiwapabamaranufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1729/8329/files/aprilaire_600_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0107/7142/files/12650795884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0123/3053/files/48491946107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gobobuxewinunegurugita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6534/files/buy_california_king_bed_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/6099/0876/files/bsnl_prepaid_karnataka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8119/3885/files/nuevos_antidiabeticos_orales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5856/8097/files/vudesazugoxelajezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0817/files/48262243196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8953/files/63689734493.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_off000053b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53B6 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 3b55512219b2abddb35a1d135c81ce8aa8b3dd5424896f45fd0015fa540541ca
font_01_sfnt_off000065b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B6 14252 bytes
SHA-256: dd64e32e5be482a7e7491f5e8e6b1a7ba2256649858a70fe381ce315afb4d0f2

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