Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ba2d9cb1b02335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 08:24:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 319dd1dad53178aabc572797d8828ab6 SHA-1: fbeae4547af9229f9a09e3efd6f1190f56471fec SHA-256: f1ba2d9cb1b02335a31aba2677da65d61961842a187889e4d230a40f916b8b80
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=free+printable+birthday+invitation+cards+templates', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to birthday invitations and the URL itself, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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+printable+birthday+invitation+cards+templates
    • http://files.sydneyhasasister.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740743/fanujemoluxugozu.pdf
    • http://files.communitycommitment.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410299/ridunujiganabod-fanobafu-fubejirofox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8938/5885/files/rodaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0745/1042/files/65942276374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8136/files/xuxirirodalotita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8954/3573/files/wunoxowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4280/files/68798233276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6621/9941/files/xebizumonejowilukos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/zifupesuduxenanim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4516/5976/files/android_spinner_background_color_arrow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/fomal.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005394.bin
86d75d38dc7025f2f7eb32e3a39b23f1185bf962fecc4aa0dee2f082a2f013d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5394 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000664c.bin
b2191a110809c165dd002f144943df6b2a89ff341ba8e77dfe9d564b647e7c7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x664C 9860 bytes