Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294040445bb3f510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: 3d9d28e8758ac61eb3b64b31175526c7 SHA-1: e08aa0fac7798350ce28e8546b26f9500604de34 SHA-256: 294040445bb3f510abf20ef19075bc55e834d10d0f1f457770d0b9f6c19ba864
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents hosted on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a phishing lure, aiming to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0' further supports the phishing classification. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0
  • 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 http://arlotrainor.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288379/retut.pdf
    • http://wandafulproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483728/d07b100.pdf
    • http://cladnh.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288430/jizafujomo.pdf
    • http://consultoriaconsciente.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621533/3832188.pdf
    • http://gogiv.netto-tc.ru/uploads/2020/01/29/wurujan-podob.pdf
    • http://njetd.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313127/bapidomujus.pdf
    • http://ksupayroll.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739982/5599482.pdf
    • http://lunazugu.trends2019.shop/uploads/2020/01/28/2121269.pdf
    • https://modurunedad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551556/ad3ace1666c.pdf
    • http://mychangingthenarrative.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604169/5518036.pdf
    • http://steffaniadaska.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540040/8641a775f792.pdf
    • http://treatsbyleets.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776363/7585608.pdf
    • http://arcadiagardensllclandscapinganddesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289429/130289429.html#assuring+transformation+dataset

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000012ad.bin
ce41d27b4d22766abaf575946a43ccaf178ef27e144acf7d1cefe1c2ba39e674
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD 8316 bytes