Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a7dfe17bfe7dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2020-11-05 21:03:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ff90b883bcf4ddb72e8a3e17d264b52d SHA-1: 9f98a650146a8bbe4d52392c2a327dfaf41ab734 SHA-256: 32a7dfe17bfe7dc1925ac67634bab86021df8baaa0b91659f40a999e9a5d9c03
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to S3 buckets, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary URL, 'https://trafffi.ru/aws?keyword=wilson+elementary+school+richmond+california', is likely a lure to direct users to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is flagged for containing a mass of external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffi.ru/aws?keyword=wilson+elementary+school+richmond+california
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