Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe45d00e3231cf60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 08:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e7458aed78ff393df6b662d8013584ee SHA-1: 05af092c6300b0ae7f25010fabbd842aea21db82 SHA-256: fe45d00e3231cf609e3d690116e6aea46c2aeb3c08e630d244d78f89a9ce5902
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link, identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, which points to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+budget+savvy+wedding+planner+pdf'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or providing sensitive information. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains references to the same malicious URL and benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for the malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=the+budget+savvy+wedding+planner+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.suzannedcorsey.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606687/tonusisejebez-zafosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationals2020.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483249/698336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibijigu.erinridgeaalhoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/374728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.journeyinvestments.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453969/7618256.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/1/0427/8992/9116/files/23628682583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0054/4931/files/38665275785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/2165328124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71061356311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2955/2552/files/rudens_plauto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3279/6574/files/libro_de_absentismo_laboral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2338/4219/files/36104203808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3066/5637/files/revanivesavememumilupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5901/2006/files/capitalism_and_freedom_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3464/files/vurofejurufobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0936/7461/files/69204832328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1220/2389/files/nirarakuvasu.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_off0000684d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x684D 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 9982b399207279f11ec6bcab12e5c178c397c45f4e096859e1ef36f197761ed1
font_01_sfnt_off00007b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B90 10060 bytes
SHA-256: e77494575e5ee1897e381c1a2f1c45e25a4f6e695458c83761690f8f31970407