Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae2b7c254a8bd51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-09-19 23:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 04a123dfeaded4ee373828c13224e49f SHA-1: 4cafdb0ec2c343f1ca880fc8ccbc990b1807da57 SHA-256: 2ae2b7c254a8bd5129e4afce12deabf3fa969250bafbf16da0e49ce3bc62fda6
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a clear lure for a 'Pokemon go mod apk game download' and embeds a link to a known malicious redirector. The document also features a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely as part of an SEO spam campaign to improve search engine ranking for the malicious lure. The presence of a visual download button further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

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.link/wix?keyword=pokemon+go+mod+apk+game+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.phoenixvillexc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813762/7835017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newhopemyanmar.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437515/9192500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puvolo.ivanyiuphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775451/2696032.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/1/0448/3717/5456/files/liver_abscess_treatment_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0873/5907/files/20254696646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3799/0805/files/55037035143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4388/7016/files/5724307967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8905/8209/files/87160772236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e7b6979e-c1f9-40cf-a2a0-5fd2d4dcee02.filesusr.com/ugd/5cd33b_7b15d1ea6c7e4884b9e7b393106c3732.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c4298054-a7cb-4798-ac0e-cacde2184d33.filesusr.com/ugd/bc0b97_42abee5a807d4663ac1f0f7a582fee8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://00d586ce-ae76-4cbc-9b7c-938665bb1d72.filesusr.com/ugd/03f576_66cb5fa892dc4476b1e229c4c6794924.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9378/7559/files/spring_awakening_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9438/5575/files/82013157849.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_off000067b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B7 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 2cacb3d63cfca42abfd2badb411a708cdae7f6eac960bf8a9c32f4dfcd065de8
font_01_sfnt_off0000794f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x794F 10328 bytes
SHA-256: d17c1c6933645777b69ed8b9b2950dcd24adeae64fd70eb029c2dcbe19079e3f

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