Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42928abb29f9e35d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.9 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: ef0c494e0b975e0279540d36d65d2d93 SHA-1: 090ecef40228850099ddf5838d457b73713057cf SHA-256: 42928abb29f9e35db962c05ba195b51b212e46039145b3404570fadcfa35bba0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various PDF files hosted on different domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or content-luring campaign, potentially for SEO abuse or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://runwildcle.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621576/satisenimuturofojor.pdf
    • http://xareku.project-inspire.global/uploads/2020/01/29/110634.pdf
    • http://forsec.ru/uploads/2020/01/28/tolan_mawidutozafigol_tutaxe_wufiguxuvowibu.pdf
    • http://premierproducers.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436154/7b436.pdf
    • https://ganekosuxabobon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546333/gategotavidakes.pdf
    • http://neverdonefiberfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379104/lufakinorupu-vikad.pdf
    • http://jitaxoboto.jfam.ru/uploads/2020/01/28/5738837.pdf
    • http://shardexplorers.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550803/130550803.html#alleluia+movie+free

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000011ac.bin
a0dbdf505fbc90161240ca1963ab989ef2f4643f626503294fcb208d8d841e32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC 8664 bytes