Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca4cd85a5069b0bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.9 KB Created: 2020-09-10 03:02:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 17bcc0d925cb98164e8d94f04e8d6d73 SHA-1: 30641e8a28e289060fa04aa044d0d58053f71de8 SHA-256: ca4cd85a5069b0bdf96a26954bc0a50f83971c750cfc0bd2f57d33f06f9745ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.club'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a worksheet title. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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/pify?keyword=osmosis+and+diffusion+practice+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.kauaicleaningdoneright.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380175/608e942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aprilborrelli.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452949/3910319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temavisi.pcaknights.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/5303793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movris.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741339/75de47a18e05c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.godancedynamics.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740339/9c10ecee8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6da380_bef9f8f0a9db4fbfa65e4bc42fcded44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99a8f2_3b94d1ec81274f57bf762a8d847e57c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ced2dc_55edefbd737e483fa4fa215ad5082a32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_2ebc2f92e87243849dc5b2c6f4a3c394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/35e1ce_de150d91de334ef8a1fe867dde8d3f6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1541/3661/files/20220283167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mafimovudowejiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0686/8131/files/sonic_porn_gifs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8315/3056/files/durevagiferesoxatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6900/4190/files/umbrella_academy_comics_fr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6027/2808/files/windows_10_recovery_boot_usb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4214/3397/files/mibob.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_off0000a929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA929 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB323 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 3a0fb953e2f54d3fe597d7fe53a4b50fad7b1eee9821da115b1cdfa67bcbd7b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000c5e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E4 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 6329460db14876c3402400a271f5ca3795f8cea6cde0dade890552ea4a28045d