Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c00bcdea5cd9d3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 08:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09defdc850d3b35d0d10de0a6f4f9ddc SHA-1: 570def2b7c02534335dffe50aebfbdee361dc60a SHA-256: 9c00bcdea5cd9d3cbcac23945d72ca03b1f0ae1e4df26514295d845ee6b710f0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, disguised as information about student loan payments. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of the payload.

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.ru/pify?keyword=fnma+student+loan+payment+guidelines
    • http://files.mectacprinstructor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437740/2f469132278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/kitupuzasufujimasor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8238/2502/files/37099994268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/bakozojuxikefawolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0553/3604/files/85932737583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4189/0210/files/47457048234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7505/8329/files/pezazolobirumizafego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1060/3677/files/donanofazolejejuxekuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3375/4773/files/marlin_guide_gun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2539/8945/files/72666809563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5454/6594/files/asturias_piano_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2768/4760/files/91965553926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2370/3969/files/mewafiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7938/5756/files/14457563615.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_off000067be.bin
a07914227a14e0fdd3c5cf4219ba549cb33c470098c56e9f6f7b3034acb479f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67BE 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007985.bin
7c0d861d9853203d77b494105bf933147071369b4eeabaed2161227e2cf61004
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7985 10640 bytes