Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65ebefd222aba490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: 360176920f51c9b02df1ec482c6f4e4e SHA-1: 8fd3ce77ce8d26256daaefcf5daabe076052547f SHA-256: 65ebefd222aba4907282781331272717afe1d3ec1c1fdbdee59016f942714285
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it acts as a loader or redirector to malicious content hosted externally.

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://learnabundance.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621128/5563416.pdf
    • http://perfectcreationsforyou.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551185/pajodukenamede.pdf
    • http://activityedge.com/uploads/2020/01/28/0a1ef9b.pdf
    • http://statewidefacilitiesservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590026/bujezup.pdf
    • https://penutitemam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603882/6517315.pdf
    • http://mifitnesslife.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483346/d073d4ba.pdf
    • http://ourweefarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588244/3253035.pdf
    • http://nowallsministry.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130477201/7098817.pdf
    • http://kidshop.info/uploads/2020/01/28/nivufefoxevir-saxekimo.pdf
    • http://nastybritches.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539078/jiviz_tigiwovufir.pdf
    • http://michiganlegalmalpracticequestions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739182/karavujavulonimalaso.pdf
    • http://countylinelogisticscenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551262/130551262.html#minecraft+t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e+hapisten+ka%C3%A7%C4%B1%C5%9F+map+indir

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000159c.bin
071f2e72f6ae24ca47726bbc6f9ee882a9c75aa1dc2a0f5e65f794b104263171
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159C 9996 bytes