Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a051b27be48ff0ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 00:10:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 865fab9a17e85df48aec38069f277338 SHA-1: 61b63b73e830329758af199df283b17f8ff69daf SHA-256: a051b27be48ff0ab404b55a3477ee0adfe01f52960dcc7428c5f3d18e3125e0d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download for 'Gameboy emulator android games'. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document's intent is to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.me/pify?keyword=gameboy+emulator+android+games, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload. The PDF also contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation or to spread the malicious 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.me/pify?keyword=gameboy+emulator+android+games In PDF document text
    • http://files.pgridirectory.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858916/lizofuwotowikutita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.275athletics.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398123/9844252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.llkobe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437158/pokaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.troytomamusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741029/7852176.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/1/0433/1667/4713/files/14143752317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3481/files/zapeloduwonujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/java_jdk_8_102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9926/8003/files/7082763428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1926/2363/files/7174336391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4265/1805/files/40427559117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3508/2402/files/jitogixefuzejejogutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8820/7254/files/80022532697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7541/1872/files/86046159200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9789/files/48325313751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9708/7390/files/87317134909.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_off000063d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D5 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 95e42715793951eccacfb099afd75872e92bdf679eb7fe694984f3182adc477f
font_01_sfnt_off00007638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7638 10312 bytes
SHA-256: cf62ec7f45ba5542c634e0f8536dbbe546f9aefe8c205f2e34ae03ab5658aba1