Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f38ceccbce1608c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:32:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab007eb71b10e304dd6f94da6b51dfb0 SHA-1: 86c469ccc6a0911b231610850cc93847ebdfd9d7 SHA-256: f38ceccbce1608c6a6fac2bfcc918d6630692460c599d58a9cfe5e36ba283437
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to 'behavioral neuroscience' and includes the malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=discovering+behavioral+neuroscience+freberg+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alardfilmfestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856646/1211555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.margotrussell.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857476/6905700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lucaswkrueger.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406068/1227303.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/1/0429/1582/3772/files/98079995068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2503/1590/files/adventures_in_middle_earth_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7962/files/fowiligopizododunerifitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/rolilubetekuwuzovoxukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8661/files/33275124248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0767/9387/files/24774890994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0714/7166/files/83250737080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9168/1699/files/where_to_find_steam_screenshots.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6672/files/gimirixotobakedejeboluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5733/9813/files/69868214171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4224/9631/files/11396007211.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_off00004692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4692 5616 bytes
SHA-256: f30efc99e90fc1500756ba938933f5eba4adce35a18ab9efbb4134f6fbc3e27a
font_01_sfnt_off000059b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59B3 10032 bytes
SHA-256: f32a9008f1c9679efebc6f34d3b42d42f114fc710411868317b22b9850873a6d

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