Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6e56d875f90bdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:16:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f79962891a2f8eb8c2befeb030c19d31 SHA-1: 6c0f50959c659b9e1e8a762947046a6fa105eb1d SHA-256: ad6e56d875f90bdfdcbefb34a7db7f967ed0b72e8e43d77136276ba3b6b6e8a1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it is a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=free+basketball+games+for+android`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links hosted on `cdn.shopify.com` and other domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free basketball games for android' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The presence of a SE_INVOICE_LURE heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to deceive the user into taking an action, such as clicking the embedded malicious link.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=free+basketball+games+for+android In PDF document text
    • http://files.edushorts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/bezonolunas-kitovixi-nududideroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anabracic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712614/7d70d98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elevagplorders.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/jibadidetaginan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibuwuli.baliartclasses.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410685/sipanobe.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/1/0438/0891/5613/files/48298274632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1222/7225/files/rixijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6588/4323/files/46900221210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6700/6364/files/suxojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7073/2950/files/3936941899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2356/3925/files/59158332551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2048/3751/files/volajita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5883/2294/files/94393511136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2661/1357/files/bimatoprosta_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1784/4382/files/business_model_canvas_a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1523/3959/files/mas_colell_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0928/6050/files/webumupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4837/8280/files/moxukojepamomunovadevoni.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_off00007afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AFC 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 04277bb4faaf3db9223301e7b5acbe3a1f5ce4cf5b4c501d2768ca8c43d18669
font_01_sfnt_off00008d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D36 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 676b081bdc2460c7c9da94f005a60444b2f6ea2e9f64a3f07d71b1e91aef51a0