Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0558701f9e56443b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 964bed3ff243a4dac92ad4576aa180b6 SHA-1: cdfb4b2e002f401ef5cb55afff94beff850036ff SHA-256: 0558701f9e56443bf60e392eefc55589d350a1a61a2887f371c7934ad8dfe3e5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to obscure the final destination. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adjectives+and+their+meanings+pdf', is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=adjectives+and+their+meanings+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.eastsidecofcfarmington.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/5946978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxibop.oakparkbands.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/487ef83af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanujixu.sscpn.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/pivupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cramericonstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/f1662e4a8694e2.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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0234/files/44771915412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6955/4332/files/xojodajemakedakilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0559/files/gidaxibomilabasovinegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/73635489358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/poxobufipixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3110/9540/files/78636995064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1222/6200/files/49162695861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/tubewebidirutiwiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2579/1133/files/pst_to_hawaii_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3938/9856/files/download_acrobat_reader_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/6827/3319/files/curriculum_evaluation_definition.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_off00006433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6433 5340 bytes
SHA-256: d03cc8d209b6fd67479f495daaed44b2bf8e61b4895665ba61913647f636efb4
font_01_sfnt_off00007637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7637 10184 bytes
SHA-256: e1d0ad4e4a7f559190c94073ecdad55cf23197a6b52f719633c6134976630c23
font_02_sfnt_off0000990f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x990F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71