Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2b9948b71c912a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:13:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a48280d16e8787dc01e82837bfdc75f7 SHA-1: 67c1d8d81b1232fa6865ce2328064c7b432db940 SHA-256: cd2b9948b71c912ab9b68c85f9940b4a73c7c9b055955aebc63d93eca752ba44
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass link farm, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=standard+fitted+cot+sheet+size+australia'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.com/pify?keyword=standard+fitted+cot+sheet+size+australia In PDF document text
    • http://files.covingtonnazarene.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/lajelili_kofateboxasub_xunovu_kubovipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reginamartyn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398336/0bc461019acd976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rubberdirect.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/jipupo_xutajegax_zekod_verobe.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/1/0436/3422/9398/files/66568293941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8772/4704/files/56228248411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7710/5832/files/inequalities_worksheet_algebra_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2823/3885/files/firujorevafovenosefatulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5688/2086/files/assertive_communication_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/autocad_tutorial_in_urdu_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8561/0654/files/sidezufobipodemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5931/2800/files/47131765180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5539/0630/files/alfabeto_arabe.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_off000060c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60C5 5260 bytes
SHA-256: cc4820dc7eb552d05f8f8a443fb2ddaf99b329143866fe30c823e556deb389a7
font_01_sfnt_off00007299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7299 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ea17b87910571966277adc4b0bb79fa753b2510a4afa7ad0639b74597e5645d1

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