Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56557bd9c86e19bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 04:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e8df9e6c314f22f97301d455ce79d2ce SHA-1: 98eedbf761f6a5f904efdd77389bc5483b5add88 SHA-256: 56557bd9c86e19bb492972fa95f4b0f510fd872f710f0e3803af0f484bba189e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=free+consulting+agreement+template+word'. This URL is presented in the document body alongside other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The presence of a 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further indicates a deceptive intent, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link under the guise of a document template. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=free+consulting+agreement+template+word In PDF document text
    • http://files.faithmeadowsfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163761/1349666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jazad.valleygrowthventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775363/1160438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.custercountyconservationdistrict.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814003/772a64b2360ef1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.linemantrainer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739251/9378680.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/1/0431/2940/5600/files/zogijuleturuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5954/3192/files/14253328070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/dekafef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1458/5509/files/mitose_cellule_vgtale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3350/files/kebolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6435/files/97940226464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9417/2058/files/nalila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/animal_crossing_new_leaf_guide_francais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/17628274246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4755/8037/files/jivapibunure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1746/9080/files/21453913076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2308/8290/files/8470937247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/tajazefozafiva.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A1D 5440 bytes
SHA-256: b648a7e7ea16baa7beaefdede8810a3821e4cf7acecfdf9a009061c683731b21
font_01_sfnt_off00008c98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C98 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 7b65d4ee3c759880f47cd7d97c446785cb8d5979982dc6f2d1e4e88577d5b674
font_02_sfnt_off0000b06e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB06E 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 9c43c18aa358de8105755ede142c657c2a330b0e24b8f62e03bdb628bd5289a0