Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e08355eb89034d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 06:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f5a77555a51601e10d3a07f2aa2aadb6 SHA-1: 3a6fcb3a10e91ef21fd4474308798b36a74cf7a5 SHA-256: 56e08355eb89034d57b5dd97c1bd6b36c9edcfb213b9ebdcfef8b0d1824fbb39
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, suggesting a deceptive lure. The presence of a download button and embedded URLs further supports this. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=best+pdf+to+word+converter+for+mac+free', is flagged as a redirector to potentially malicious infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or scam attempt.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=best+pdf+to+word+converter+for+mac+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.richbrownies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813307/4dd855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kipmcgrathtuition.wales/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739343/wekemogidotivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.foodsfourthought.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873741/9b91b464178e53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.klaversclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/vofupupa.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/1/0430/2821/8010/files/medinuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81599599528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9020/6115/files/12487359166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3217/2965/files/30578766797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9848/1564/files/lotigudesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5560/4134/files/pepofawavudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5651/2676/files/13437430596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4122/4861/files/26099318938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6773/4171/files/girupefojelidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0469/0581/files/pegunevijomumota.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7F5 5208 bytes
SHA-256: d1c409a7a1cf77b0939d35e657799aa29bb71720f9b4baaa46aebf308eec0505
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A3 12832 bytes
SHA-256: a143bcd012ac25a845a0c280831e3cd53f5d2ecdc9911a118b81b08ccc1742e9