Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb46c499f110d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:40:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0c2663a56a21b84585f0696cd38962c4 SHA-1: 4d99c18f4ddb0ba45b567460ce97dac846fa502a SHA-256: fdb46c499f110d935b8bc84b2d8b78dcd43cb71bfff163ae08cc86e89fbb32eb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to a "John Mayer new album" and includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. This link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=john+mayer+new+album, leads to a link farm of numerous PDF files hosted on Shopify, indicating a potential SEO poisoning or traffic generation scheme. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to drive traffic to malicious or spam-related content.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=john+mayer+new+album In PDF document text
    • http://files.1stclasshomeopathy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453215/5342250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffersonhumane.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/wuwof_tesuzedikomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puvakit.roadrunnersballhockey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738696/vipezepagaluvowisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.expressionsdanceplymouth.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069890/8dd372a73fcdad3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.divinesoulenergy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695302/jotufixefadoj.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/1/0428/4016/2467/files/bugojasisixufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3606/3397/files/mefixizuvunutoguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5342/4540/files/vaporesso_tarot_nano_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2172/8933/files/19040500991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8266/1526/files/50018574856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9520/3745/files/86383172701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1828/8284/files/96699536242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9831/files/reraxaroxalaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9898/8954/files/40263920142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9592/5671/files/luvizamupul.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000176d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176D9 5072 bytes
SHA-256: e4828916a7c73d9efd537a4cf1e63c7fb41e856f8053ba4ad48ceff9bccb8f18
font_01_sfnt_off00018803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18803 12320 bytes
SHA-256: acea02427e3de54a792480aa0f4e5e08eebe8594721a61801fe85cd3dceb2a71

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