Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb7a00ffad2e204b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3d093d8c16f5f810d524fafbb25266c SHA-1: 6cebc574613aa3596457c9b33580573b31083ab0 SHA-256: fb7a00ffad2e204b93b706529e1f91b4518165a60b88c25d52c3aba7909d6c4a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive message about 'my birthday cake pics' and embeds multiple links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=my+birthday+cake+pics'. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms this malicious intent. Additionally, the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a link farm. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=my+birthday+cake+pics
    • http://tejebuv.gregorywsaxton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438309/ronon.pdf
    • http://files.create-diy-online.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606408/gajurawagin_bodidusuk.pdf
    • http://jugizeko.pvtennisclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/mixuwonikafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9266/2688/files/bekibajaxovanuxobes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5509/5716/files/1329107915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/lafofadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/migafedolaxezafav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1163/7401/files/32786101481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5511/9520/files/frostpunk_console_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8194/8567/files/bidale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1212/6882/files/36506565129.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_off00006730.bin
a98bde5ce359bc54853e2bc09d28db9a94f6a5510c46389e1aec358d0f1bfa3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6730 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079ae.bin
fe0af8bb62fe105c201ae9d883c4b539808e1270a7f7c9670481cafd84fdb086
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AE 9988 bytes