Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c498f508ac1fad55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:26:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24e6501d436719fc7a371a70f264c26f SHA-1: e5b51c253be8824cb605dff1550510e8660bd250 SHA-256: c498f508ac1fad55a15eadcd42e8bc9cf69e58832bcd53c2e002d120c474f6f7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=tiworker.+exe+high+cpu'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or lure mechanism. The ML classifier also 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.ru/pify?keyword=tiworker.+exe+high+cpu
    • http://files.cecanterbury.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874567/wukemupuzi_gabomodusurenuj.pdf
    • http://files.stjohn-bc.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607404/9c1cbc257221d.pdf
    • http://files.theolivebranchfrisco.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695734/5691803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gigogew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2906/8949/files/53649216261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/34754179748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1643/8438/files/ruxinidejuzejimixoxixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8968/files/lezavojezutopizuxajupuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0067/3950/files/kodi_configurator_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0923/5353/files/wavafinogilixerezaxik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/24596218752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6100/8791/files/nilusemiwadakep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6887/files/suwagepelojipemotepakun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6385/2712/files/xudosoxebiwasanofazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2519/files/wimazapinixepidipap.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_off00005c87.bin
1865382c1d258b50bc484c7e4d803a4c04b06661326f58792fec34f7a7918dc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C87 4980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d9c.bin
6de95e329c4c8156e5111fe6b8a0f0a24bbbaaf0e566c19847ff6e3fcccbca63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9C 16128 bytes