Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d901ba41874f3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 04:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a5973b2743597a03e5aba7a223883cf SHA-1: b849714e06f19f7918e133554d944cbd03851094 SHA-256: 56d901ba41874f3c0b25056c54e8ba0cf43a446dd483960fc2ca81ef657ba6c5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=waste+management+system+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and references to other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The file's purpose appears to be to funnel users through a series of redirects, likely leading to further malicious content or exploits.

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.ru/pify?keyword=waste+management+system+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vofufi.hirotosinmalawi.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/98ea74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.helpoverhurdles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738524/mulufuzopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.megs-eggs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380901/wetenisupo-wakoxejixelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rimrockmanagement.biz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/zazatipu.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/1/0431/5290/0250/files/91082221040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/poxesisopotunezamikexiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0906/3586/files/jewemopeteludujuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0604/2023/files/satevosakodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1533/8144/files/wibojupamaperefoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/63491738983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3121/5774/files/30852988421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0134/7226/files/wuzilanixujeminuremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8250/6647/files/81194745586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6142/5814/files/7326562788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6128/8868/files/94341246301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rirolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8714/3839/files/58679073371.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_off000066c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C0 4980 bytes
SHA-256: cf5017ab2a9cbdaddc24b5ea5650a4df801f05f39aeb99dad03cbcdd82190961
font_01_sfnt_off000077a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A3 10444 bytes
SHA-256: b57d810fc25047aea670c8d71d84d2efa14f7c32a5f6fc279980e9f7272b3be0
font_02_sfnt_off00009b41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B41 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e