Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2f1c3ab08b0658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 45660c718d345706fef529634dfac828 SHA-1: 17bf20ab1e2b06ba2d08ddeb76de3521a7f30b01 SHA-256: cb2f1c3ab08b065862cbc8966ea2217dc150b982dfa76c492a2d5a1803978d9a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a lure for a 'Barbie dreamhouse party apk'. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

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=barbie+dreamhouse+party+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.polarcenter-bg.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970004/c40b681752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebopuke.leggingsandliterature.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/7009987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffreyprimeaux.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739043/5528905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/86770052238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3782/files/79473381556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9275/5103/files/61423816000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3470/4034/files/lr_lightroom_apk_old_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3575/4650/files/57692368961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5903401900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8147/9832/files/ncert_class_11_chemistry_periodic_table.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4795/2292/files/17226651835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/25686822477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6931/7020/files/96385134368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/what_function_does_the_appendix_perform.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4618/2822/files/minecraft_daytime_command.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7095/5424/files/74449015859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5193/files/xadelifikipudipelajupuvi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE1 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e34c609393487bcbda3f8cdb30804fd0e495525c70129f9252b853e8c4264d18
font_01_sfnt_off00006de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE3 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 5a31fdaf6666897380cebe6f6e586368228de84f73adb2acf34de8361bfece41
font_02_sfnt_off0000931b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x931B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361