Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2385effae19c4ca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-09-10 01:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9bf5bd658606cf0e7e96a120a5d948f7 SHA-1: 2ecfb79e20f0bd4232933620058c250104d4d618 SHA-256: 2385effae19c4ca2fd198934a0331b032915eb40f31c1e9cae8ae3efebfd1cc7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.club, which is disguised as a search for "Cummins engine spec sheets". The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, and the ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the embedded URL is clearly visible and points to a malicious domain. The PDF also contains a link farm, suggesting a broader SEO poisoning or spamming campaign.

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.club/wix?keyword=cummins+engine+spec+sheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.commonscience.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606046/6ce1720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freedstournament.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384208/witinasada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jvsfinearts.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069763/85b76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theartexchange.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813378/dasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dusada.vacationsbycarla.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483337/sutal_lajerobudukak_zasola.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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d3758e_02f9440e7f02462ba3315a7283b91e8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6203b9_0f1558eefa244a9bb34529c78892a819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26481d_e57bd420b32f4bc3992000fd0dc21b4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9df9d6_445c32c95d834d819c8d514dbd7cdab9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7776/3226/files/5614398223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8318/6585/files/cationic_dyeable_polyester.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6285/2773/files/daniwuvedotumabasonexevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6166/files/wafizexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5770/8185/files/posevukagadagudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/65e777_d2758e579cc844e08714ac5491b3d766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_4e32c58268254a428999271b5215edf3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9021e0a4d19a420d9e7f540be05bb835.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_off00006565.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6565 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 67a6a23c97635e561804557977f8c3f75bbd7f60fb40cd88ef51b3fdfb948913
font_01_sfnt_off0000759a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759A 14984 bytes
SHA-256: dbe679bb2d0622bfc1d63a15fafab2d6993e155c9f5c789e4ead9dc269997c7b
font_02_sfnt_off0000a43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA43D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3