Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c56959fd7ec7b219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57cdb0b239198387d140f885efc1124f SHA-1: 2b43bfbcb3ba246c2515e7737e47a3075503817e SHA-256: c56959fd7ec7b219fff1bf19276aab21e57d01865ae2f90e6b6f4d2ef082ffdd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a lure related to a Schengen visa application, which is a common social engineering tactic. It embeds a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the embedded link.

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=application+for+schengen+visa+greece+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.metiworld2020.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871859/memiwodubosukeg-nekel-taderebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.janetdowsarchitect.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968988/kurefuguwibidadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.triowestboro.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874122/4f45e5c4e8c8f22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jopitu.presbycast.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741555/8957185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alphaandomegachurchdirectory.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398006/3658927.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/1/0434/3444/2908/files/principles_of_naval_architecture_vol_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0999/1075/files/faxoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5684/0350/files/37906021100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/openssl_create_ca_cert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9436/8663/files/74537393675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3636/8296/files/tarawolamudalevada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3170/5238/files/69346328630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16946396068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5358/8390/files/tukapukizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7435/5351/files/zerawozurusujilevize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/71846246131.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B60 5252 bytes
SHA-256: bb92f50913427f3fb8a5e187484a1f0029138bd15cb44b0ec61dd57528e9dc1f
font_01_sfnt_off00006d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D34 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 9f560813b105bbac3bafafdcc568fd10fb13c0c167a22e1626f30ea6dab1d0d1
font_02_sfnt_off00008f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F94 17632 bytes
SHA-256: dd433496f27b49e18f120ce4ef697be6397e08947cd4a9edbb2a4415ee29ce81
font_03_sfnt_off0000a9cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9CF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361