Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45fa1dc3c45131d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 07:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54b44c6e63eb65f411cb419ccea821ab SHA-1: 18752b0c989dc841337de19545410970c59b18fa SHA-256: 45fa1dc3c45131d6015420b59190803623c52157a89aec7ff503ccac2b98b9a0
194 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.cc/pify?keyword=kid+cudi+pursuit+of+happiness%2528+nightmare%2529'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/20425041707.pdf'. The document body itself contains these URLs, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into clicking them. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=kid+cudi+pursuit+of+happiness%2528+nightmare%2529 In PDF document text
    • http://files.napafermentation.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712115/3086089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ellabonitastores.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856519/kazikesabi-xelokamebegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lieberconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/jedemose_lexopadurilaxo_kapob_rigixuxenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abnavisaviation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454102/5b43e94445e6d91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.energygroupuniversity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407057/234402.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/1/0433/1329/9620/files/20425041707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/69514834200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4585/5137/files/86779153893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/bokewalonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0576/9888/files/gubezujawekomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9476/8802/files/71954986230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7056/9113/files/ragaxulabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/wuruzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejukimuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0821/9547/files/fedataretekib.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_off00006b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B03 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 27db8e8fd16e593023e05ee2c6e176e173a2b4aba1dc37552243699164bbcc3b
font_01_sfnt_off00007dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DBE 15668 bytes
SHA-256: 16d68dd0075441fac14eade347974ae9686a77bce70153636b980bc40dc24f42
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE1E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34